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What’s That Cigar Box Guitar Made Of? Fiona Boyes Tells All
Fiona Boyes talks with ABC Radio about her unusual instruments and the music on Box & Dice: Pre-Order on Amazon today!
Making A Scene Says To “Seek Out” Fiona Boyes
The new Fiona Boyes release, Box & Dice, gets a rave review from Making A Scene‘s Richard Ludmerer: “Coming from Australia didn’t hold Fiona Boyes back. Perhaps the distance served to filter out the mediocre; so that she only listened to and learned from the very best. … Boyes was nominated for a Blues Music Award every year between 2007 and 2010. … Boyes raspy voice is highly expressive. If you haven’t heard her lately,…
A blues musician walked into a bar in Yackandandah…
The Star Hotel has been plying its trade since 1863, but the funky cigar box guitar hanging on the wall was only a few days old and proudly inscribed ‘No 1’ in Sharpie on the back. In an uncharacteristic move, I took if off the wall and played it at my gig that night. While it proved to be a bit of a mongrel, there was something strangely compelling about this little junk yard dog…
Come See us At RMAF 2015!
Going to the Rocky Mountain International Audio Fest this weekend? Make sure to visit the RR Booth! Rocky Mountain Audio Fest October 2-4, 2015Denver, CODenver Marriott Tech Center The RR Booth Main LobbyEvergreen Ballrooms Interact! When you swing by the RR booth, or if you’re in a demo room using an RR recording, take a photo and make sure to tag RR on Twitter (@RefRecordings) or on Facebook! We look forward to seeing you soon!
Box & Dice is a “guitar fest”
“I just received the newest release, Box & Dice, from Fiona Boyes and it’s a gritty, bluesy guitar fest. Opening with Juke Joint on Moses Lane, Boyes gets a thick, rudimentary sound from a resonator guitar with superior sliding technique. Her voice is raspy and well suited to this polished form of primitive blues. I’m A Stranger Here has a pure delta sound played only on a 6 string cigar box and she handles it…
Far In The Heavens Climbing the Charts!
True Concord Voices & Orchestra’s Far In The Heavens release debuted last week at #13 on the Billboard Charts and is up to #5 this week! Order & Listen Now: ReferenceRecordings.comAmazonArkivMusicApple MusicSpotify
Fiona Boyes a Melbourne Blues Society Artist of the Year!
The Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society has named Box & Dice artist Fiona Boyes the 2015 Artist of the Year! Here is her reaction: While I was on the road last weekend, the news came through that I’d just won the MBAS Victorian & Tasmanian Blues Music Awards ‘Artist of the Year’. Home again, at last, and admiring the beautiful trophy, I’m reflecting on the importance of heroes and mentors in the Blues life. It means…
Far In the Heavens “A Must”
Critic Rad Bennett says Far In the Heavens is “a must” have release! “The overall spirit [of Prayers and Remembrances] is conciliatory, espousing hope through remembrance across many spiritual paths. I was especially moved by the setting of The Prayer of St. Francis and the a Capella anthem When Music Sounds to the verse of Walter de la Mare (“When music sounds, all that I was I am”). The performances are excellent and the recorded…
Macallè Blues interviews Doug MacLeod
Italian blues magazine Macallè Blues has a new interview with RR artist Doug MacLeod: MB: Let’s start from the basics. Every time I talk to some blues cat, no matter if he’s a musician or just a blues lover, one of my biggest curiosity is always about the way he’s discovered the blues. So Doug, how did you get to know and, I would say, love the blues? Did it happen by a family record…
Classical Candor Reviews Utah Symphony’s Mahler Symphony No. 1
John J. Puccio reviews the new Mahler Symphony No. 1 “Titan” recording from the Utah Symphony and Thierry Fischer on his Classical Candor blog: “The sound is good…here [the miking] is not so close as it is in many other live recordings. The result is a fairly natural perspective… the sonics are round, warm, detailed, and natural, as though heard from a moderate distance instead of so close up.” Full Review Order & Listen Now:…
Box & Dice is Universal Blues
“They say music is the universal language. Few things will bear that out like this CD from Reference Recordings, the latest in their Fresh series, “Box & Dice” from Fiona Boyes. I hear you. What’s so universal about a female Blues guitarist? Well, how about the fact that Ms. Boyes comes from a place about as far removed from the birthplace of the Blues – the rural South – as it’s possible to get. She’s…
Opera Today Reviews Far In The Heavens
Far In The Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus receives a strong review in Opera Today: “Stephen Paulus provided the musical world, and particularly the choral world, with music both provocative and pleasing through a combination of lyricism and a modern-Romantic tonal palette. … Like his other large scale oratorios, [Prayers and Remembrances] covers the full range of his expressive and accessible style. … The performance of True Concord Voices and Orchestra is excellent. Paulus’…
BlogCritics Review Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice
Fiona Boyes new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Box & Dice gets five stars from BlogCritics.org! “Fiona Boyes is an amazing blues performer from Australia with a great husky voice and a love for unusual instruments. This self-produced album features simple but effective arrangements. … These unusual instruments ensure a different and interesting sound, but do not think of this album as a novelty. It’s not that at all. The songs include nine great originals…
New York Concert Review on True Concord Voices and Orchestra’s New York Debut
New York Concert Review critic Jeffrey Williams reviews the True Concord Voices and Orchestra performance at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall where they performed Stephen Paulus’ Prayers and Remembrances as part of their New York debut! “Prayers and Remembrances is a seven-movement work, each movement using carefully selected poems, both secular and non-secular, that all touched on the concept of grief, but also recovery and spirituality in living. … The music is tonal, with harmonic…
Fiona Boyes Box & Dice Preview on YouTube
Preview next month’s Box & Dice release from Fiona Boyes with our new YouTube Playlist featuring live performances of works on the album: Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Fiona Boyes plays deep Blues, influenced by a myriad of traditional regional styles. She has carved an international reputation as a blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and American reviewers have described her as a ‘musical anomaly’ and ‘Bonnie Raitt’s evil twin’! Equally at home on acoustic or…