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Will Ackerman,Fiona Joy,Lawrence Blatt,Jeff Oster

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Arrival Live from Vermont

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09/25/2019 - Next Stage / Putney, VT
09/27/2019 - Carnegie Hall / New York, USA
1 Arrival
2 Whisper Me This
3 Flow
4 Free Ascent
5 Waiting For Sunshine
6 Waters Gather
7 And the Sky Was
8 A Night in Nocelle
9 Tenth Life
10 Rest Now My Friend
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Contemporary Instrumental music enters a dynamic new era with FLOW – a fresh ensemble comprised of four of the genre's most innovative, critically-acclaimed and awarded independent artists: Australian pianist Fiona Joy, acoustic guitarist Lawrence Blatt, trumpet and flugelhorn player Jeff Oster and legendary GRAMMY®-winning guitarist Will Ackerman. The group debuted live to a sold-out crowd at Carnegie's Weill Hall, and is slated to perform at the 14th Annual Zone Music Awards at Roussel Hall in New Orleans this May.  Yesterday, the International Acoustic Music Awards (IAMA) announced that FLOW are now finalists in two categories.

Press by Beth Ann Hilton & Doreen D'Agostino

  • Acoustic Guitar visits with guitarist, producer, and Windham Hill founder: Will Ackerman
    Posted At: August 21, 2022
    Acoustic Guitar's Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers writes…..It’s hard to picture a more idyllic environment for making music than Will Ackerman’s Imaginary Road Studios in Windham County, Vermont. The studio building, part of a rustic compound constructed over many years by Ackerman himself with lumber from the surrounding forest, overlooks a hillside thick with sugar maples. In contrast to the cave-like atmosphere o...

  • Will Ackerman's 'Gathering4Guitars' set for Livermore PAC / The Livermore Independent
    Posted At: March 22, 2019

    Grammy Award-winning music producer and guitarist Will Ackerman is universally recognized as the pioneer in new age music. He single-handedly fostered the careers of generations of acoustic guitarists and pianists through his groundbreaking work at Windham Hill Records. Ackerman will take the stage at the Bankhead Theater on March 28, 2019 for a "Gathering4Guitars." In this evening of acoustic music, Ack...

  • Will Ackerman joins '4 Guitars' for; Next Stage Arts Project / Brattleboro Reformer
    Posted At: January 11, 2019

    Last year, when Will Ackerman was producing a CD of three renowned guitarists, one of the musicians asked, "Why are you on the other side of the window as a producer, why not play with us?" So he picked up his Froggy Bottom guitar and did just that. That is how 4 Guitars was born. Next Stage Arts Project and Ackerman, founder of Windham Hill Records and Imaginary Road Studios, presents 4 Guitars, on Satu...

  • Lawrence Blatt talks FLOW with THE AQUARIAN WEEKLY
    Posted At: September 26, 2018

    FLOW is a more than a band: FLOW is an ensemble group, FLOW is friendship, FLOW is filled with passion. The impeccably talented and tremendously creative four piece consists of Will Ackerman, Lawrence Blatt, Fiona Hawkins, and Jeff Oster. Their evocative and rhythm-based music takes the new age genre to a new level of sophistication. There are elements of each of their instrumental and lyrical talents in...

  • FLOW's 'Waiting for Sunshine' is on the next Punto Radio - animajazz
    Posted At: August 21, 2018

    Contemporary Instrumental music enters a dynamic new era with FLOW – a fresh ensemble comprised of four of the genre's most innovative, critically-acclaimed and awarded independent artists: Australian pianist Fiona Joy, acoustic guitarist Lawrence Blatt, trumpet and flugelhorn player Jeff Oster and legendary GRAMMY®-winning guitarist Will Ackerman. The group debuted live to a sold-out crowd...

  • FLOW comes alive with stunning new album / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: August 1, 2018

    FLOW stands for Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt, Jeff Oster and Will Ackerman. It's a New Age group formed out of friendship and a history of working and playing together over eight years. Once recording began, it became clear that Will could be an essential part of this group as an artist as well as producer. When invited, Will was happy to join the others and FLOW was born. With Will and Tom Eaton produc...

  • Echoes explores the intuitive chamber moods and inspirations of FLOW
    Posted At: July 28, 2018

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  • New Age supergroup FLOW performs live on Echoes
    Posted At: July 23, 2018

    FLOW is the new age supergroup of pianist Fiona Joy, guitarist Lawrence Blatt, trumpeter Jeff Oster and guitarist, and founder of Windham Hill records, Will Ackerman. You've heard all of them on Echoes as solo artists. They've had CD of the Month picks, previous live performances, and appeared on Echoes Best of Lists. In only their third live appearance, they delve into the intimate and serene songs of t...

  • There is much to love about FLOW, a music that soothes rather than scorches / The Morton Report
    Posted At: July 10, 2018

    Flow. Thirty years ago New Age was almost a cult music for those seeking the silence. Fairly or not, it was way off the map for those born into rock & roll. Flash forward, though, and there is much to love about a music that soothes rather than scorches. Both styles can be scintillating once the stereotypes are beaten into dust. Flow is a quartet comprised of Will Ackerman, Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt,...

  • FLOW - featured with 3 tracks on this week's Hearts of Space
    Posted At: May 25, 2018

    Contemporary Instrumental music enters a dynamic new era with FLOW – a fresh ensemble comprised of four of the genre's most innovative, critically-acclaimed and awarded independent artists: Australian pianist Fiona Joy, acoustic guitarist Lawrence Blatt, trumpet and flugelhorn player Jeff Oster and legendary GRAMMY®-winning guitarist Will Ackerman. The group debuted live to a sold-out crowd...

  • FLOW wins 2018 ZMR 'Album of the Year' and 'Best Contemporary Instrumental Album' / EIN
    Posted At: May 19, 2018

    From the New Orleans Jazz Museum and the 2018 ZMR Awards – where they won Zone Music Reporter's Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album – to the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, FLOW continues to create a buzz around a spirited and dynamic musical synergy worthy of its cool moniker. The ensemble's soulful all-original, genre-transcendent vibe has been described as a fr...

  • Forty years after Windham Hill, comes the graceful, atmospheric, rhythmic ease of FLOW / JW VIBE
    Posted At: May 15, 2018

    Forty years after Windham Hill became a catalyst for the global musical phenomenon, its bountiful legacy of best-selling solo works (George Winston, Liz Story, Alex DeGrassi, Michael Hedges) and Grammy winning ensembles (Shadowfax) – extends into a truly new age with FLOW – a new four-piece ensemble comprised of Ackerman and three of today's most acclaimed independent award-winning artists, A...

  • FLOW sounds like spaciousness and shadows in the morning sun / Jazz Weekly
    Posted At: May 11, 2018

    Sounds from Windham Hill return from the 80s as legendary guitarist William Ackerman teams with Fiona Joy/p-voc, Lawrence Blatt/g-uk, Jeff Oster/tp-fh and a handful of guests to give a 21st Century interpretation of what used to be called "New Age" music. The genre holds up surprisingly well here, as Ackerman's gorgeously classical strings create gentle moods on "Flow," the soft and spacious "A Night...

  • FLOW announces 'Arrival Tour' in advance of ZMR & IMA awards
    Posted At: March 30, 2018

    FLOW announced The Arrival Tour, a series of live performances in select cities, including a kick-off at The New Orleans Jazz Museum on May 10, 2018 at 8 pm. Simultaneously, the group is nominated for two key Zone Music Reporter Awards ("Album of the Year" and "Best Contemporary Instrumental Album") and two International Music Awards (IMAs) including "Best New Age Album" and "Best New Age Song" for their...

  • Will Ackerman and Lawrence Blatt discuss 'FLOW' with axs
    Posted At: March 5, 2018

    These are four musicians who are all self-sufficient in their talents. They're brilliant at making albums that are unique and musically successful as soloists. The lovely surprise is that they, we, all managed with grace and ease to come together and create something new and different from anything any of us had ever done before," Grammy-winner Will Ackerman explains. Ackerman, along with Fiona Joy, ...

  • FLOW nominated for Independent Music Awards
    Posted At: February 14, 2018

    Music enters a dynamic new era with FLOW – Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt, Jeff Oster, Will Ackerman. The group debuted live to a sold-out crowd at Carnegie's Weill Hall, slated to play the 14th Annual Zone Music Awards this May, and now the Music Resource Group announce that FLOW is Nominated in the New Age Song Category at the 16th Annual Independent Music Awards, held March 30...

  • FLOW nominated for International Acoustic Music Award
    Posted At: February 2, 2018

    Four of the genre's most innovative, critically-acclaimed and awarded independent artists have come together for - FLOW(pianist Fiona Joy, guitarist Lawrence Blatt, trumpet and flugelhorn Jeff Oster and GRAMMY®-winning guitarist Will Ackerman. The group debuted live to a sold-out crowd at Carnegie's Weill Hall, and is slated to perform at the 14th Annual Zone Music Awards at Roussel Hall in New Orlea...
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