About this project
Christmas Joy is an album of piano, instrumental and vocal music that crosses genre from Classical, New Age, World and Jazz. It avoids the cliches. Walking in the Air with an intoxicating vocal in Gaelic, Still Still Still featuring Paraguayan Harp, Jingle Bells with Didgeridoo and Silent Night and O Come O Come Emmanuel as epic orchestral pieces. Ethereal vocals combine with the magic of a Stuart and Sons 102 key piano (made in Australia).
The album has been recorded to the highest quality with Grammy Award winning Producer Corin Nelsen and Production Advisor Will Ackerman (Founder of Windham Hill Records).
"In Christmas Joy, Fiona Joy Hawkins has breathed new life into a repertoire of traditional music deeply in need of new perspective and new energy. The recording offers an inventive and, yes, joyful approach; bringing life to music which has been taken for granted for decades. Both in her unique slant on traditional music and in her own compositions for this recording, Chrismas Joy is an utterly brilliant creation."
Will Ackerman (Founder Windham Hill Records)
Christmas Joy needs marketing dollars to manufacture, release and get copies to radio and reviewers, The album needs to find an audience otherwise it will sit and collect dust on a shelf.. I need to get it off my computer and out into the world, but most importantly to you............my audience. My life's goal is to reach you through my music. Without your support this album has little hope of a successful release.
This album is a follow up to Blue Dream which charted at the top of the New Age International Radio Charts, won album of the year and was an ARIA Finalist.
There is no integrity greater than the intention of a single note" FJH.
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Funding Canceled
Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator on August 20, 2011.
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An mp3 from the album and a thank you poem delivered to your computer from my heart.....
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A copy of Christmas Joy signed, sealed, kissed and delivered to your mailbox.....WITH a copy of Blue Dream.
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A copy of Christmas Joy (signed sealed and kissed) along with a copy of every album I have released - Portrait of a Waterfall, Angel Above my Piano, ICE - Piano slightly Chilled and Music for Massage.
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A copy of Christmas Joy (signed sealed and kissed) along with a copy of every album I have recorded - my guess is that this person would choose $200 because they want to donate - so the extra for this pledge would be my heart felt thanks.
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Plus travel and accomodation..............and I will come and play a concert for you on the nearest piano you can arrange.
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Fiona Joy Hawkins is a composer and pianist whose music is best described as Transcultural Instrumental. An ARIA Finalist in 2009 for Best World Music Album and winner of the 2008 MusicOz Awards for Best Jazz or Classical Artist, Fiona also won Best Piano NAR Lifestyle Music Awards 2006 and Best Dance Dub/Club 2008, and has been a finalist in over 43 Indie Artist Awards across 9 countries.
Her last album (priot to Christmas Joy) BLUE DREAM, received the highest ever ranking in the history of the New Age Reporter International Radio Charts, debuting at #1 and went on to win the ZMR Album of the Year, Best Piano Album and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. Fiona's music crosses genres from Classical to Jazz rhythms, world influences and New Age mysticism, and she has had the good fortune to work with many incredible artists including Will Ackerman, Luka Bloom, T-Bone Wolk (Hall & Oates), Tony Levin, Heather Rankin (Rankin Family), Jeff Haynes (Pat Methany), Eugene Freisen (Paul Winter Consorte), Paul Jarman, Dave Ellis, Rebecca Daniel and world renowned Mongolian Throat singer Bukhu.
Classically trained as a pianist, Fiona's music is thematic and melodic. With a keen eye on film she has always been interested in creating music that evokes images and emotions and tells a story.
Fiona first began playing and writing music as a child and cites Ravel's Bolero as an early influence. "I played this over and over and deconstructed every part, I absolutely loved it," said Fiona. Other musical influences include: George Winston, Michael Nyman, Chopin and Mendelssohn.
The family home was filled with music. "My father played Jesus in the Tamworth Musical Society production of Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Webber's music was part of our lives."
Discovered by Will Ackerman in 2008 after winning Album of the Year in the NAR Awards on a keyboard and from a field including George Winston, Fiona had the opportunity to travel to Vermont to record an album at his Imaginary Road Studios.
“Fiona Joy Hawkins” BLUE DREAM began as the most ambitious project of my entire career and resulted in one of the most remarkable collaborations this genre has ever known. Blue Dream is unique and I’m as proud of it (and Fiona) as anything I’ve ever worked on in my 35 year career of Grammy Awards and gold and platinum records.”
Will Ackerman (Founder Windham Hill Records) Windham County, Vermont 2008
ABC Music Australia: “Blue Dream represents the very best of this music genre and follows in the great tradition of artists such as George Winston. This beautifully crafted album has already been hailed in the US as a work of pure genius”.
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Discography:
PORTRAIT OF A WATERFALL
ANGEL ABOVE MY PIANO
ICE - PIANO SLIGHTLY CHILLED
BLUE DREAM (IN BOTH CD AND SACD)
Music for Funerals, Music For Weddings, Music For Sex, Music for Massage (download only)
For more information:
www.fionajoyhawkins.com.au
www.myspace.com/fionajoyhawkins
www.sonicbids/fionajoyhawkins
or email: orders@littlehartleymusic.com.au
