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The Gathering Concert with Barbara Higbie +4 Other Award-Winning Musicians!

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THE GATHERING CONCERT features 5 AWARD-WINNING MUSICIANS presented by WILL ACKERMAN, GRAMMY WINNER & founder of Windham Hill Records. This Brattleboro, VT concert features…

BARBARA HIGBIE, (pianist, fiddler, singer-songwriter), recorded the album, “Tideline”, produced by Will Ackerman on Windham Hill Records, in 1992, and it became an instant classic – one song, “True Story”, was downloaded on Pandora in 2014 more than 850,000 times. In 1994, she co-founded the acoustic super group, MONTREUX, with Darol Anger. When they recorded “ Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival”, (produced by Will Ackerman), with Mike Marshall and Andy Narrell, it became a landmark genre-defining album. Higbie has 5 solo albums, and has performed on more than 100 albums, one with Carlos Santana and two with Teresa Trull. The LA Times called Higbie a “jolt of bright sunlight.”

DAVID CULLEN, (guitarist), won a GRAMMY AWARD for Best Pop Instrumental Recording. He has recorded 12 CDs and performed with Will Ackerman, Samite of Uganda, Michael Manring, and many more. He has recordings on the Windham Hill Guitar Sampler and other Windham Hill Compilation CDs. He was a featured soloist at the New York Guitar Festival, and performs for Classical Guitar Societies and at Jazz Festivals throughout the country. He also teaches Jazz and Classical Guitar. The NY Times Billboard has lauded Cullen for his “Ferocious Fingerstyle”.

JILL HALEY, (oboe & English horn player, pianist, and composer), won BEST PIANO ALBUM with INSTRUMENTATION at the Zone Music Reporter (ZMR) Awards in 2014 for her album “Mesa Verde Soundscapes”, which was recorded at Will Ackerman’s Imaginary Roads Studio with engineer Tom Eaton. Her 2012 release, ”Zion and Bryce Canyon Soundscapes,” was rated #1 for the MOST WORLDWIDE AIRPLAY in 2012 by ZMR, and nominated for BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM by ZMR. Haley also plays with the longstanding group ONE ALTERNATIVE, that has been a featured live guest on the nationally syndicated radio show, ECHOES, many times.

DAVID LINDSAY, (guitarist), will release a new instrumental album, “Nightbound”, in November, produced by Will Ackerman with co-producer and engineer Tom Eaton. From 1985 to 2000, Lindsay recorded and performed in concert, live radio, and television in Canada. For the past fifteen years, he practiced law, and studied lute, culminating in master classes with Robert Barto and the late Pat O’Brien, whose generosity of spirit inspired David to begin a journey back to the guitar. Ackerman has called Lindsay’s work, “some of the best writing and playing I`ve heard in years.”

TOM EATON, (piano, multi-instrumentalist) is best known as an AWARD WINNING RECORDING ENGINEER AND PRODUCER, who works alongside Will Ackerman at Imaginary Road Studio in Vermont. Since 1993 Eaton has also operated his own commercial studio in Newburyport, MA, where he has produced, engineered and played on more than a hundred recordings for a national and international clientele. He has released one record of piano based material, co-written with cellist Kristen Miller, and a new album of keyboard and piano originals is in the works for 2015.

THE GATHERING CONCERTS bring together musicians produced by WILL ACKERMAN, (guitarist, composer, producer, founder of Windham Hill Records, GRAMMY WINNER, and recipient of 27 GOLD and PLATINUM RECORDS). Producing, again, instrumental artists of remarkable talent, he created compilation CDs, THE GATHERING & THE GATHERING II, (THE GATHERING III will be released soon). In 2012, the first CD won the coveted Zone Music Reporter (ZMR) ALBUM OF THE YEAR and the BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM, with the highest airplay rating of any record in the history of that format, and volume II went to #1 on the ZMR radio charts. Having produced 7 of the 10 highest rated albums ever reported by Zone Music Reporter, In 2013, Will was honored with a LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD at the ZMR Music Awards. Wanting to provide both the musicians and the listeners opportunities to have the uncommonly rich experience that only live performances can provide, Ackerman began creating concerts where groups of the musicians he has been producing could gather to perform on stage, solo and in collaboration. Each GATHERING CONCERT offers a unique evening of some of the best acoustic instrumental music being produced in the world.