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“Professin’ The Blues” Nominated for Age Music Victoria Award
UPDATE — PROFESSIN THE BLUES IS THE BEST BLUES ALBUM WINNER!!! Fiona Boyes‘ Professin’ The Blues has been nominated for The Age Music Victoria Awards as the Best Blues Album of 2017! Her Box & Dice album was the 2015 Winner! About The Age Music Victoria Awards Heading into its 12th year in 2017, The Age Music Victoria Awards are excited to once again reveal the nominees for each category and open up the polls…
Guitarra Reviews Fiona Boyes
Argentina’s Guitarra Magazine reviews Fiona Boyes Box & Dice: “Recently, the guitarist, singer-songwriter Fiona Boyes was nominated for USA 2016 Blues Music Awards, and Box & Dice won best blues album at The Victoria Age Music Awards. On this album, fans of country or acoustic blues find the guitar and hoarse voice of this Australian creating a healthy mix of traditional with contemporary.” —Guitarra Vote For Fiona in the Blues Blast Magazine Awards! Fiona Boyes:…
Macallè Blues Reviews Box & Dice
Italian blues outlet, Macallè Blues reviews Fiona Boyes’ Box & Dice: “In recent years Australia has expressed some real blues talent…One of these talents is surely Fiona Boyes.… Box & Dice represents an instrumental experiment that, besides her usual guitars, let some handicraft cigar-box guitars (built by Shayne Soall from Oz Blues and Roots Music Store) step out front. Boyes plays those guitars using bottlenecks drawn by different small liqueur bottles. And, above all, she…
Fiona Boyes on the Black on Blues Podcast
Fiona Boyes is featured on the Black on Blues podcast! Listen Now: Your browser does not support the audio element. Voting is now open for the 2016 Blues Blast Music Awards and RR artist Fiona Boyes has been nominated as the Female Blues Artist of the Year! VOTE NOW! Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music Spotify
Vote for Fiona Boyes!
Voting is now open for the 2016 Blues Blast Music Awards and RR artist Fiona Boyes has been nominated as the Female Blues Artist of the Year! VOTE NOW! Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music Spotify Fiona Boyes:
Is Box and Dice Fiona Boyes’ Best Yet?
“Ever since she won the solo acoustic category in the International Blues Challenge of 2003 (the first woman and the first Australian to do so) Fiona Boyes has been as unstoppable as a wild fire. She’s won more awards and accolades than you can shake a guitar at and she gathers more fans with each new release. The release at hand will likely bring even more into the fray. … Outside of three wonderful covers,…
Two Top Living Blues Albums of 2015
Living Blues has released their Top 50 Albums of 2015 and Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This comes in at #14 and Fiona Boyes’ Box & Dice lands at #36! Congrats to both of these great blues artists! Doug MacLeod: Exactly Like This HDCDVinyl LP Amazon Apple Music Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music Spotify
Doug MacLeod and Fiona Boyes are Digital Blues Best of 2015
The Digital Blues Podcast names the recent Reference Recordings releases from Doug MacLeod and Fiona Boyes to their Best of 2015 list! Listen to the podcast today: Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify Doug MacLeod: Exactly Like This HDCDVinyl LP
Fiona Boyes on Blues Blast Magazine Cover!
Box & Dice artist Fiona Boyes is on the cover of the latest issue of Blues Blast Magazine! Blues Blast Interview I love it when an “authentic” blues artist forces the blues police to re-adjust their judgment on the validity of that artist’s work even though that artist’s back story doesn’t fit the cliché of who a “real” blues artist should be.Fiona Boyes is a blonde Australian woman of Scottish descent who never heard a…
Topping the Charts!
Two releases are topping charts to end 2015 on a high note! Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Box & Dice comes in at #1 on the Roots Music Reports Top Australia Albums Chart for the week of December 28, 2015! Get Box & Dice Today: Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify Kansas City Symphony — Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” The Kansas City Symphony and Jan Kraybill’s GRAMMY-nominated release is the…
Blues Music Magazine Reviews Fiona Boyes Box & Dice
Blues Music Magazine‘s Pete Sardon has a new review for Blues Music Awards-Nominated artist Fiona Boyes and her Box & Dice recording: “Fiona Boyes, after having a baker’s dozen of recordings in her Aussie tucker bag, has created something unusually special in her 2015 Box & Dice CD as she uses both four- and six-string cigar box guitars, an insanely rare (one of two in existence) baritone National ResoLectric guitar and is accompanied with items…
Multiple Blues Music Award Nominees!
The Blues Foundation announced the 37th Blues Music Award Nominees and Reference Recordings artists are well represented! Doug MacLeod Acoustic Album (Exactly Like This) Acoustic Artist Song: “You Got It Good (and That Ain’t Bad)” Fiona Boyes Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female) Jimi Bott Instrumentalist-Drums The 37th Blues Music Awards will be presented May 5, 2016 in Memphis, TN Final Ballot will be sent to MEMBERS December 22, 2015Become a Member TODAYPurchase the recordings…
Four Stars for Fiona Boyes from Downbeat!
Downbeat Magazine gives Fiona Boyes and her new Box & Dice recording ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the January issue: “Delighted with her recent acquisition of handsome cigar-box and National Resolectric baritone guitars, Australian Fiona Boyes puts them to the test on her latest release. Sure enough, those guitars have plenty to say in discourses with her true-blue vocals. Her songs are conduits of flammable or relatively tranquil emotion.…” —Frank-John Hadley, Downbeat Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on…
Fiona Boyes Wins Annual Blues411 Jimi Award!
Blues411.com announced their annual Jimi Awards winners yesterday, and we’re happy to share that Fiona Boyes was not only nominated in two different categories, she is the Jimi Awards 2015 “Guitar Heroine”! Jimi Awards Guitar Heroine: “Guitars are not just toys for the boys. We have a long history of ladies playing the guitar and doing it with an amazing degree of excellence. Here is our choice a lady who is self taught and started…
Fiona Boyes Wins The Age Music Victoria Awards Best Blues Album!
Last month we told you Fiona Boyes and her new Box & Dice album was nominated for The Age Music Victoria’s “Best Blues Album” award, and now it’s our pleasure to share that Box & Dice is the winner! See Fiona’s photo and reaction below: Last night at The Age Music Victoria Awards!!! Thank you so much to my band mates Mark Grunden & Dean Addison – album… Posted by Fiona Boyes on Wednesday, November 11,…