Awards Music Award Nominee 2009 Acoustic Blues Album of the Year is a one-woman blues tent Winner - Blues Critic Awards revival. Her pulpit is the stage, which she 2008 Best Live or Compilation Album commands with the energy of an entire flock of worshippers. And her Bible is the 2008 Nominee guitar. With her acoustic and electric Contemporary Female Blues Artist of the virtuosity and mastery of styles, she uses Year

it as a righteous instrument to uphold the 2007 Blues Music Award Nominee music’s tradition, even as her strong, Contemporary Blues Album of the Year distinctive songwriting moves it forward. 2007 Australia / New Zealand Blue Star The native Australian’s soulful, Blues Awards authoritative style — brilliantly displayed Australasian Blues Album of the Year on her new album Blues Woman — has Best Female Vocalist earned Boyes unprecedented recognition. Critics Choice - International Blues Album In each of the past three years she’s of the Year

received major Blues Music Award 2007 Port Fairy Folk Festival nominations, in both contemporary and Artist of the Year — PFFF is one of the acoustic categories, that trumpet her world’s largest Folk Festivals, with over diverse skills and consistent excellence in performance. And it’s worth 500 performers and 120,000 visitors. noting that Boyes first arrived in America to claim yet another honor: winner 2006 MBAS Australian Blues Awards of the 2003 International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, where she swept Blues Album of the Year away the competition in yet another incarnation — solo acoustic performer. Female Artist of the Year Representing the Melbourne Blues Society, Boyes was the first woman and Song of the Year the first Australian to earn the title. 2004 Australian Blues ‘Chain’ Awards Impressive? offers this striking assessment: “I ain’t never Female Vocalist of the Year heard a woman finger pick a guitar like that since .” Indeed, Int’l Blues Challenge, Memphis Boyes’ elegant ‘n’ gritty vocal style and powerful playing have also earned 2003 Winner, Solo/Duo division comparisons to Bonnie Raitt, and Rory Block. Whether playing the music of New Orleans, deep back-porch Delta blues, music 2003 Les Trophees France Blues patterned after the classic blues women of the 1920s, or electrified Chicago Guitariste Femme Award styled blues or even greasy Memphis soul or high octane rockabilly, Fiona 2003 MBAS Australian Blues Awards Boyes is a proven international performer with striking, original talent that Blues Album of the Year allows her to write, sing and play anything in the blues realm with total Female Artist of the Year conviction. Song of the Year

2003 Jazz Review (USA)

Highlight Performances Blues Music Awards, TN • Chicago Blues Top 3 Female Blues Albums (with Rory Festival, IL • New York Rhythm and Blues Festival, NY • Legendary Rhythm & Block & Marcia Ball)

Blues Cruise • Back Porch Blues Festival, GA • Monterey Bay Blues Fest, CA • 2002 MBAS Blues Performer of the Year Idaho City Music Festival, ID • Waterfront Blues Festival, OR • Blues-n-Barbecue Festival, KY • Heritage Music Festival, WV • Bayfront Blues Festival, MN • Hot 2001 MBAS Australian Blues Awards Springs Blues Festival, AR • Blues on the Beach, VA • Magic City Blues Festival, Blues Album of the Year MT • Ottawa Blues Festival, ON • Edmonton Labatts Blues Festival, AB • Female Artist of the Year Australian Blues Festival, Goulburn NSW • Port Fairy Folk Festival, VIC • Great APRA/AMCOS Song of the Year Southern Blues & Rockabilly Festival, NSW • Gympie Muster, QLD • East Coast 2001 International Blues & Roots Festival, NSW • Adelaide Intl Guitar Festival, SA ‘She Could Play That Thing’

Home Page: Booking and Management: Publicity: Photos and fionaboyes.com Steve Clarke, Yellow Dog Records Electronic Press kit: Blue Empress Music Group [email protected] yellowdogrecords.com/presskits [email protected] 901-452-4087 Selected praise for...

Blues Revue One of the year's standout albums... 12/1/2006

Blues Bytes One of the top two female contemporary blues albums I’ve listened to all 8/14/2006 year... puts Fiona into some elite company when the powers that be decide on the nominees for next year’s Blues Music Awards.

Relix One of the most sizzling blues albums—by anyone—in years. 11/1/2006

All Music Guide Boyes lets it be known that this time she's cranking up the volume... it's 8/7/2006 one wicked slab of blues. With albums this good she'll be on top of all of the blues polls before long.

Midwest Record Recap She sounds like Bonnie Raitt’s evil twin, and that’s really a good thing... 7/28/2006 simply a riot, well-deserving of all the accolades she’s been racking up.

House of Blues Radio Hour This is great stuff... The lady does it all, plays a wicked guitar, knows how 10/1/2006 to growl a lyric...

Sing Out! Superb... Boyes' facility to move in and out of a variety of blues styles with 10/1/2006 ease rivals that of a Rory Block or Bonnie Raitt.

Cadence This record demonstrates that she is in league with any current American 11/1/2006 artist... in an age where the Blues community is waiting for another Stevie Ray, Boyes is one to watch.

Rambles By any standard, this is one of the most entertaining and inspiring new 11/4/2006 blues recordings of the year...

Pop Matters Fiona Boyes can play with anyone, male or female, Australian or Delta- 11/7/2006 born, traditionalist or modern blues interpreter... She’s the real thing.

New York Blues and Jazz Society This is one of my favorite albums this year... Fiona Boyes sometimes 9/5/2006 sounds like Bonnie Raitt and sometimes like Marcia Ball, but her talent is undeniable.