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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,…
Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice is “truly excellent”
Blues Magazine features Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice in a new review by critic Iain Patience: “Fiona Boyes is that rare thing, a female blues guitarist/singer/songwriter and an Australian. ‘Box and Dice’ is her first release under the US Bay-area Reference Recordings label where she’s in good company alongside the likes of Doug MacLeod, Lloyd Jones and others. And, like most Reference recordings, the studio quality is high with a splendid warm, empathic sound and…
Fiona Boyes on Blues Radio International
Fiona Boyes joins Blues Radio International for a live performance of “Louisiana” from Box & Dice: Fiona Boyes — Box & Dice Get it Today! Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify
The Age Music Victoria Nominates Box & Dice for Best Blues Album!
The Age Music Victoria Awards have announced their nominees for the best albums across 11 genres and Fiona Boyes’ Box & Dice is a Best Blues Album nominee! The Age Music Victoria Awards celebrate Victoria’s best music of the year! An Awards committee from The Age and Music Victoria select a panel of 30+ industry judges from radio, music blogs, print media, record stores, festivals and more to submit a long list of up to…
Making A Scene Interviews Fiona Boyes
Making A Scene has an exclusive new interview with Box & Dice artist Fiona Boyes: Get Box & Dice Today: Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify
Fiona Boyes on the Rdio!
Rdio’s “New Music Weekly” Station is featuring Fiona Boyes and her new Box & Dice recording! Click the image below to listen for free (after registration/login)!
Five Stars for Fiona Boyes Box & Dice
Five Stars on Amazon for Fiona Boyes and her new Box & Dice recording: “Fiona Boyes is an amazing guitar player and singer from Australia, with a husky voice, a talent for songwriting, and a love of unusual instruments.On this album she plays the “Box and Dice” cigar box guitar shown on the cover and a 4-string cigar box guitar, as well as a rare National Reso-lectric baritone guitar and her usual touring guitar a…
New FRESH! Blues — Box & Dice
Now Available — Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice FRESH! From Reference Recordings Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify Read Reviews and More Distinctive New Album from Australian Fiona Boyes! The cigar box with the green dice knobs (hence the title “Box & Dice”) as well as the four-string guitar are one-of-a-kind instruments made for Fiona. The baritone National Reso-lectric is quite rare. The 6-string blond guitar is custom-made for Fiona by…