Biography

Experience Christmas as you never have before with an intoxicating mix of Gaelic, Didgeridoo, Paraguayan Harp, Soprano Sax, String Orchestra and a world of Rhythm that will free your spirit as it calms your senses.

CONTACT: Fiona Joy Hawkins
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Christmas Joy is from the same Grammy Winning team that produced Windham Hill’s incredible repertoire.

Crossing genres from Classical to Jazz rhythms, world influences and New Age mysticism and 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.

Album Trailer:

1. Walking in the Air (Deluxe) 5:06
2. Still Still Still (Deluxe) 3:43
3. While Shepherds Watch (Deluxe) 1:59
4. Silent Night (Deluxe) 4.49
5. Jingle Bells (Deluxe) 4:27
6. Gliding on a Sleigh (Deluxe) 5:15
7. Christmas Wedding (Deluxe) 4:05
8. O Come O Come Emmanuel (Deluxe) 4:46
9. Flight of the Snowbird (Deluxe) 4:26
10. The Holly and the Ivy (Deluxe) 5:20
11. Christmas Joy (Deluxe) 5:16
12 Away In A Manger (Deluxe) 3:39

Tracks 2,3,4,5,8,10,12 Trad arr Fiona Joy Hawkins Track 1 written Howard Blake. Tracks 6,7,9,11 written Fiona Joy Hawkins

(c) Fiona Joy Hawkins APRA/Amcos
(p) Little Hartley Music
Released Nov 2020.
Self Published (Apra/Amcos)

All piano & alto vocal Fiona Joy Hawkins

Listed in Alphabetical order:

Philip Aaberg, Orchestra Arrangement and Keyboard Will Ackerman, Acoustic Guitar
Charlie Bisharat, Violin (track 5)
Rebecca Daniel, Violin and Vocals (3) and additional String Arrangement
Dave Ellis, Double Bass
Eugene Friesen, Cello
Jeff Haynes, Percussion
Michael Jackson, Didgeridoo
Tony Levin, Bass Guitar
Heather Rankin, Vocals (solo) (track 1,4,6,10)
Alfredo Rolando Ortiz, Paraguayan Harp www.alfredo-rolando-ortiz.com
Marc Shulman, Electric Guitar /Tiple
Premik Russell Tubbs, Soprano Sax

Produced: Corin Nelsen
Co Produced: Fiona Joy Hawkins
Production Advisor: Will Ackerman
Engineered & Mixed: Corin Nelsen at Imaginary Road Studios and Synchrosonic Productions
Mastered: Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering

General Bio Information:
Fiona Joy is known for ‘Grace’, her song on a Grammy Winning album in 2014 and for her extensive catalogue produced by Will Ackerman (Founder Windham Hill Records). In 2016 she won two categories of the Independent Music Awards at the Lincoln Centre in New York and has been awarded Best Piano Album by International Radio (ZMR Awards) for several of her albums. Nominated alongside Pete Seeger for Best LIVE Performance Album in the Independent Music Awards, Fiona was an ARIA Finalist in Australia in 2008.

Fiona works with Australian piano maker Stuart and Sons, and has several albums with Blue Coast Records (content partners with Sony Music for hi-resolution releases) Blue Coast owner/producer Cookie Marenco says, "Fiona's melodic solo piano and masterful performances are the perfect music to debut the kind of clarity double DSD audio brings to the home listener’.

Living in a small village of 830 people in NSW Australia, Fiona has toured and played around the world at venues like New York’s Carnegie (Weill Hall), the New Orleans Jazz Museum, Sydney Opera House (MusicOz Awards), a live concert on Echoes/NPR Radio, has accompanied Deepak Chopra in NY, a concert for the Mason and Hamlin Piano Festival in LA, The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Glasshouse Port Macquarie, Sydney Women’s International Jazz Festival and the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, amongst others.

'Fiona Joy’s music brings back to mind the wonderful years of Windham Hill'David Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of Positive Feedback