Fiona Boyes & The Fortune Tellers play Martha Salt Music 11th May 2024.
The only Australian musician ever to be recognised in the American Blues Foundation (Memphis) ‘Blues Music Awards’, with 8 nominations, including 2019 ’Traditional Female Artist of the Year’. Fiona’s performance features guitars, vocals and unique cigarbox instruments. Known universally as Bonnie Raitt’s ‘evil twin’, the international recording artist and touring musician will be with us at Martha Salt Saturday May 11. With the fabulous Fortune Tellers Tim Neal on Hammond and Mark Grunden drums. Fiona is the best there is, make no mistake! New album “Ramblified” out now.
Fiona Boyes plays Martha Salt Music Saturday May 11th 2024. Fiona Boyes plays deep Blues, influenced by a myriad of traditional regional styles. She has carved an international reputation as a blues guitarist, bandleader, vocalist and songwriter. International reviewers have described her as a ‘musical anomaly’ and ‘Bonnie Raitt’s evil twin’!
A distinctive finger-picking and slide guitarist, Fiona’s soulful, authoritative style has earned her unprecedented recognition overseas as an Australian artist. Winner of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, she has toured widely, performing at acoustic, guitar, jazz, and blues festivals, clubs and cultural centers in more than 20 countries.
Fiona released ‘Ramblified’ in late 2023 to rave reviews and top charting positions.
Fiona previously released a remastered 20th Anniversary Edition of her debut solo album ‘Blues in My Heart’, a 16 track celebration of acoustic ragtime finger-style blues. Recorded live to analogue tape, it captures a unique performance moment much like the early historical blues recordings she so admires.
By contrast, Fiona’s most studio offering ‘Voodoo in the Shadows’ (2018) extends her exploration of the musical stylings of Mississippi and Louisiana, featuring swampy electric guitar along with a collection of unique cigar-box guitars and a rare National Reso-Lectric baritione. It follows other award-winning albums such as the audiophile acoustic album ‘Professin’ the Blues’ (2016) and ‘Box & Dice’ (2015) which was written around her growing collections of cigar-box guitars.
Fiona’s nomination for the Koko Taylor Award (Best Traditional Female Artist) at the 2019 USA Blues Music Awards in Memphis was her 8th BMA nomination over various categories since 2007. Fiona is the only Australian ever to be nominated for these awards, which are considered to be the Grammies of the Blues.
Equally at home on acoustic or electric guitars, her mostly original repertoire is like a Blues travelogue. Listen to her play and you’ll hear Delta slide guitar, single chord Mississippi Hills grooves, intricate country blues finger picking, along with material drawn from the classic blues sounds of New Orleans, Chicago and Memphis. As her friend and mentor, the late, great Hubert Sumlin (Howlin’ Wolf’s guitarist) said. ‘She’s got it! I’ve played with all of them – and she’s got it!’
”…one of the world’s best fingerpicking blues guitarists…” (The Guardian, Australia)
Doors from 7:30pm | Show 8:15pm
General Admission $35 + BF
@ door (if still available)
You are welcome to bring your own dinner/snacks whilst the Bowlo kitchen is not in operation.
Please note the Bowlo Bar is now CASHLESS i.e. card only