Fiona Boyes follows up her 2017 Music Victoria Award for Professin’ The Blues with a “Best Blues Album” nomination for her new Voodoo in the Shadows recording! Australia’s largest publicly voted music awards The Age Music Victoria Awards is back for its 13th year in 2018. Boasting a massive night of live music and accolades, the 2018 Awards will take place on Wednesday 21 November during Melbourne Music Week. The “Best Blues Album” is an…
Fiona Boyes is putting together the stories behind the songs from her new Voodoo in the Shadows recording! First up is “Call Their Name”. Get the background, and then watch a live performance: Voodoo in the Shadows Release Date: October 19, 2018 Fiona Boyes is Australia’s most successful and celebrated international Blues artist. Her previous Reference Recordings release, Professin’ The Blues, received the 2017 Acoustic Album of the Year award from Blues Blast Magazine. The…
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Voodoo in the Shadows Fiona Boyes is Australia’s most successful and celebrated international Blues artist. Her previous Reference Recordings release, Professin’ The Blues, received the 2017 Acoustic Album of the Year award from Blues Blast Magazine. The Blues Foundation in Memphis has honored her with 6 Blues Music Award nominations, including Acoustic Album of the Year and Best Acoustic Artist in 2017. In 2003, she won their International Blues Challenge, representing The Melbourne Blues Appreciation…
Reference Recordings would like to wish Maestro Manfred Honeck a Happy 60th birthday today! Friday, September 21, 2018, Maestro Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony will release their eighth recording on our FRESH! From Reference Recordings label, and in honor of his birthday, we’re offering our entire Manfred Honeck catalog of recordings on sale through September 30! So start celebrating, and saving! From The Pittsburgh Symphony Staff and Orchestra: Manfred Honeck on FRESH! From Reference Recordings
Announcing TWO September 2018 Releases! Beethoven: Symphony No 3 “Eroica”; Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 A QSF Journey Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra chart a new path forward! Reference Recordings proudly presents these two iconic works in definitive interpretations from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb audiophile sound. This hybrid SACD release was recorded in beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Quartet San Francisco’s eclecticism…
On the heels of the LP-release of his Blues Music Award-winning album, Break The Chain, Doug MacLeod will be joining New York’s premier Jazz & Blues radio station, WBGO, next week, August 22 at 3pm Eastern for a live performance and interview. The program will be broadcast over the air and online – so make sure to tune in at WBGO.org! Break The Chain In this release, his third album for Reference Recordings, Doug MacLeod…
Doug MacLeod’s Blues Music Award-winning Break The Chain recording is now available as a 45rpm, two-LP set pressed by Quality Record Pressings on 180-gram Vinyl, with half-speed mastering by Paul Stubblebine! In this release, his third album for Reference Recordings, Doug MacLeod continues to explore the breadth and depth of the human condition. Recorded by Reference’s Grammy-winning engineer ‘Prof.’ Keith O. Johnson at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California, Break The Chain has twelve new…
WCRB, Classical Radio Boston, names the new Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin recording of John Williams At The Movies their CD of the Week! “Conductor Jerry Junkin is celebrating his 25th season with Dallas Winds, one of America’s most energized and revered ensembles. Add in one of the world’s greatest trumpeters, a superb engineering team, and the goose bumps that come with John Williams’s music, and you’ve got one highly charged new CD – and…
Dallas Winds Jerry JunkinChristopher Martin, Trumpet Music to inspire the world for generations! “a must for movie fans and audiophiles alike.” —Dan Morgan, MusicWeb International John Williams is a game changer. Early in his career he crossed the lines between music that was “art” and music that was “commercial,” and never looked back. He is one of the best known, most awarded and most successful composers in US history, and his name is inextricably connected…
John Williams is a game changer. Early in his career he crossed the lines between music that was “art” and music that was “commercial,” and never looked back. He is one of the best known, most awarded and most successful composers in US history, and his name is inextricably connected to outstanding music for films. He has written scores for over 100 films, and his massive list of awards includes 51 Academy Award nominations and…
Following their recent cover story and interview, Blues Blast Magazine has announced Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain is nominated for a 2018 Blues Blast Music Award for Acoustic Blues Album of the Year. This is the second major honor for Break The Chain as it was just recently announced as the winner of the 2018 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album of the Year! Break the Chain In this release, his third album for Reference…
Blues Blast Magazine‘s May 31 issue features Doug MacLeod on the cover along with an extensive new interview by Don Wilcock! The first time Doug MacLeod performed “Break The Chain,” the title song from his latest album, was in Denmark. “I was doing a festival. I was in this room. There must have been about 300 people there, and they all stand up there in Denmark. And I mentioned the story of “Break The Chain.”…
We are very pleased to present our first release in a new series from the PaTRAM Institute. The music performed on this recording of Orthodox choral music in the Slavonic language was written by famed Russian composer Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944). Teach me Thy Statutes is performed by the PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, a highly professional group which is a collaboration of Russian and American singers. The male choir is considered by many to be the…
Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain recording has won the 2018 Blues Music Awards Acoustic Album of the Year! This makes three years in-a-row that Doug MacLeod has won a Blues Music Award (Acoustic Artist of the Year 2017, 2016). Congratulations to Doug MacLeod, Jesse MacLeod, Jimi Bott, Denny Croy, and Oliver Brown! From Doug MacLeod “I was thrilled to hear the news that Break The Chain won The Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album Of…