A decade after the ethereal tunes from Fiona Joy's breakthrough recordings   
   Portrait of a Waterfall and Angel Above My Piano made her a staple on Sky FM   
   internet radio's solo piano channel, the New South Wales-based recording   
   artist and visionary artist    
   caps an incredible breakthrough year with two nominations by the Independent   
   Music Awards.   
      
   The global music sensation is up for Best New Age Album for her popular 2016   
   release Signature - Synchronicity, and for Best New Age Song for one of its   
   tracks "Calling Earth." (See the video at https://youtu.be/oP81wRBotTg)   
      
   The Independent Music Gala @ Lincoln Center will be held on Saturday, November   
   12, 2016 in New York City at the prestigious Lincoln Center for the Performing   
   Arts. The day-long music event for fans and industry will stream live   
   performances from IMA    
   artists. The winners of The 15th IMAs will be announced from the stage.   
      
   Signature - Synchronicity was co-produced by new age legend and Windham Hill   
   Records founder Will Ackerman (who also lends his trademark acoustic guitar),   
   Tom Eaton and James Englund. Fiona Joy is currently with Ackerman's Imaginary   
   Road team in Vermont    
   working on an upcoming project, and exploring New York concert opportunities   
   for 2017.   
      
   Earlier this year, Fiona Joy completed her second highly successful "Piano   
   Angel" tour of China, contributed to the newly released peace album Action   
   Moves People United, and recorded a new Hi-Res album with Blue Coast Records.   
   Last week, she recorded    
   two concerts for the highly-acclaimed PRI radio show "ECHOES" with John   
   Diliberto, which will air in the coming weeks and months. "ECHOES" is a daily   
   two-hour radio program featuring a soundscape of ambient, space, electronic   
   and new age music.   
      
   Fiona Joy has also submitted Signature - Synchronicity to the 59th Grammy   
   Awards for New Age album consideration. Listen at https://soundc   
   oud.com/user-260052746/sets/signature-synchronicity   
      
   Signature - Synchronicity is actually "part two" of her critically-acclaimed   
   Signature Collection, which began as a true-story concept, and grew into a   
   musical exploration spanning the audiophile, new age, piano and contemporary   
   instrumental markets. The    
   first album in the series is Signature - Solo (Tiny Island Music), including   
   ten songs recorded by Cookie Marenco for an audiophile experience; it became   
   the first solo piano album to reach #1 on the ZMR International Airplay charts   
   since the legendary    
   pianist George Winston.   
      
   Fiona Joy says the series began as a very personal exploration of how the   
   deteriorating "signature" bone in her left hand (caused by a degenerative bone   
   disease) could affect her life and music. "Everything I write is conceptually   
   derived. Signature was    
   always about my left hand," she explains, "and the word 慡ynchronicity' means   
   the coming together of inner and outer events - signifying the collaborative   
   spirit and magic involved in working as a team, which is what we're sharing on   
   the new album."   
      
   "I wanted to do a solo version of the songs in a single take, as a live   
   recording, and then show the magic of what you can do in the studio with the   
   same songs," the pianist adds. "Same music, two different worlds. I think it's   
   interesting for the    
   audience to hear what difference you can make to a song. Take the song   
   慓race,' for example. It has been recorded as a solo, an acoustic vocal, on   
   flute, as chill, and as an Indian/South African version for a GRAMMY-winning   
   album in 2015. Note for note,    
   it's the same song, but a totally different experience in each recording! That   
   fascinates me."   
      
   Independent Music Awards (IMA) producer MRG (Music Resource Group) accepts   
   hundreds of submission, choosing only five to compete in the final New Age   
   category. Coincidentally, Lawrence Blatt - one of Fiona Joy's competitors in   
   the New Age category - is    
   also her band mate in the new group, FLOW. Another FLOW member, horn player   
   Jeff Oster, is nominated in the Best Live Performance Category. FLOW (drawn   
   from the artists' initials) will be releasing their first album together in   
   late 2017.   
      
   The IMA winners will be selected by blue-ribbon panels of top recording   
   artists that include: Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, Slayer, The Kills, Lalah   
   Hathaway, Meshell Ndegeocello, Sepultura, Dido, Warren Haynes (Government   
   Mule), Suzanne Vega, Gus    
   Unger-Hamilton (alt-J), Shelby Lynne; previous IMA winners including Amy Lee   
   (Evanescence), The Show Ponies, Noshir Mody, Rozina Pátkai and Ingrid Gerdes,   
   among many others; and influential press and talent buyers from the Americas,   
   Europe and Pacific    
   Rim.   
      
   Fiona Joy and Lawrence Blatt will attend the IMA awards ceremony Independent   
   Music Party on November 12th at Lincoln Center in NYC.   
      
   Signature - Synchronicity is available at iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, and all   
   digital platforms. Please visit www.FionaJoy.com for music, videos and images,   
   also at https://fionajoy.bandcamp.com/   
      
   For more information, contact Beth Ann Hilton, The B Company, be   
   hhilton@)theBcompany.com or 310-560-8390.   
      
   Website: http://www.FionaJoy.com   
      
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