The road to Carnegie Hall passes through Brattleboro’s Latchis Theatre on Wednesday, October 4, when four renowned musical friends, including Grammy-winning acoustic guitarist Will Ackerman, unveil songs from their new release FLOW.

Forty years after Ackerman’s Windham Hill studio became a catalyst for the global new age 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 artists, Australian pianist Fiona Joy, acoustic guitarist Lawrence Blatt and flugelhorn master Jeff Oster. All in, FLOW members have accumulated armloads of accolades and honors, from GRAMMY® Awards, to ZMRs, IMAs, IAMAs and a catalog of #1 albums in the genre.

Two days before FLOW will be unveiled at an album release celebration performance at Carnegie Hall, they will present this special Preview Performance at the Latchis Theatre on Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds from the concert benefit the non-profit Latchis Arts.

Formed out of mutual and collective long-term friendships and a history of working and playing together over the past eight years, FLOW is not only an unusual anagram of their names (Fiona, Lawrence, Oster, Will) but also reflects the foursome’s fresh international new age sound and the graceful atmospheric and rhythmic ease with which each of the album’s 11 tracks streams into the next.

The concept of FLOW had its origins in 2015, when Blatt invited Joy and Oster to join him at Ackerman’s Imaginary Road Studios in Windham County’s West River Valley to create an album inspired by the iconic Windham Hill sound and ensembles. Ackerman had already produced several of Fiona Joy’s and Oster’s albums plus Blatt’s recordings The Color of Sunshine, Emergence, and Latitudes and Longitudes featuring Oster on horn.

Reflecting on FLOW’s debut project, Oster says, “If you look back into any time of human existence, this need for peaceful breathing and listening has always and will always be deeply important. It’s not only New Age music, it is EVERY AGE music!”

Tickets to FLOW at the Latchis are $15 and are available at the door or here: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=larts .  For more information, visit www.latchisarts.org.