Sue Foley

GRAMMY® Award Nominated, 5x-Blues Music Award Winner & 10x-Blues Music Award Nominated Guitarist, Singer & Songwriter SUE FOLEY and her Acclaimed Band come to New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market on Thursday April 30 at 7:30 P.M. In 2025, Foley received a GRAMMY® Award Nomination for “Best Traditional Blues Album” (‘One Guitar Woman’). In 2024, Foley was awarded the Blues Music Award for “Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year” (Koko Taylor Award) – an award she also won in 2020, 2022, & 2023. In 2024, she was awarded the “Blues with a Feeling/Lifetime Achievement Award” at the Maple Blues Awards. Her 2021 album, ‘Pinky’s Blues’ took home “Best Traditional Blues Album” at the 2022 Blues Music Awards.

 

“She’s one of the most dangerous guitar slingers on the planet. She’s Serious.”

— BILLY F GIBBONS (ZZ TOP)

 

“One of the premier modern blues guitarists.”

— GUITAR PLAYER MAGAZINE

 

“You put on her records and whatever space you’re currently in becomes blues night at an old Texas roadhouse.”

— AUSTIN CHRONICLE

 

“This country’s finest blues guitarist.”

— TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL (Canada)

 

“An admitted standout.”

— DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE

 

“Cut live, Pinky’s Blues has a raw, spontaneous magic that leaps out of the speakers and invites the listener to join the band for a Modelo and a shot of Tequila.”

— BLUES BLAST MAGAZINE (2012 Album Review of’Pinky’s Blues’ Album Review)

 

“It takes an endless soul, a spirit-lifting sensibility and a sound that stands out from others to really ring the blues bell…Which is exactly what Sue Foley can do.”

— AMERICAN HIGHWAYS

 

“The Juno-winning singer/guitarist has been a Blues force to be reckoned with for decades and this new collection, produced by Mike Flanigin (who also plays organ on the record) can only add to her fierce legacy. ‘Ice Queen’ also features a special trio of legendary Texas guitar slingers such as Jimmie Vaughan, Billy Gibbons, and Charlie Sexton.”

— ROCK & BLUES MUSE (2018 Album Review of ‘Ice Queen’)

 

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GRAMMY® Award Nominated, 5x-Blues Music Award Winner & 10x-Blues Music Award Nominated Guitarist, Singer & Songwriter SUE FOLEY’s last acclaimed album ‘PINKY’S BLUES’(2022), is named after Sue Foley’s pink paisley Fender Telecaster electric guitar that has been such a major part of Foley’s life for all these years. Part of that is the total devotion Sue Foley has to the guitar, and in particular to the one she calls Pinky that has been with her for decades and continues to play on this album. Foley feels it’s almost a living extension of who she is and helps guide her through the rambunctiously deep renditions of everything she performs. Foley’s album ‘Pinky’s Blues’ won the 2022 Blues Music Award for “Traditional Blues Album of the Year.”

 

Sue Foley is a multi award-winning musician and of the one of the finest Blues and Roots artists working today. Foley spent her early childhood in Canada, mesmerized by her father’s guitar and started her professional career at sixteen. By 21, Foley was living in Austin, TX and recording for Antone’s—the esteemed blues label and historic nightclub that helped launch the career of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

 

Foley’s first release, ‘Young Girl Blues’, quickly rooted her unique talents as a proficient blues guitarist, inspired songwriter and captivating vocalist. Foley has toured steadily with her band, toting her signature pink paisley Fender Telecaster—working and sharing the stage with greats such as BB King, Buddy Guy, Lucinda Williams and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. In 2001, she won the prestigious Juno Award (Canadian equivalent of the Grammy) for her CD, ‘Love Coming Down’. Foley also holds the record for the most Maple Blues Awards (27) and has earned three “Trophees de Blues de France”.

 

Foley has garnered 10 Nominations at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, TN – winning her first Blues Music Award in 2020 for “Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year” which she went on to win again in 2022, 2023 & 2024! She was also Nominated for “Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year” in 2011 & 2019, as well as “Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year” in 2003 and 2021. In 2019, her song “The Ice Queen” was Nominated for “Song of the Year.”

 

In 2016, Foley returned to Austin, TX and started collaborating with some of her old friends and many Texas musical legends including Jimmie Vaughan and Billy F Gibbons (ZZ Top). Foley is the only female member of the famed “Jungle Show” which features Gibbons, Jimmie Vaughan, B3 virtuoso Mike Flanigin and Chris ‘Whipper’ Layton (formerly of Steve Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble). “The Jungle Show” was one of the hottest tickets in Austin in 2016. After playing two sold out shows at Austin City Limits Live 3TEN Club in December, Foley entered the studio with her Texan pals and laid down tracks for what was undoubtably one of her best and most successful album to date; ‘The Ice Queen’.

 

As with many blues women of the past, Foley has a long history of defying convention and being a positive role model for aspiring, young female musicians.

 

Tickets for GRAMMY® Award Nominated, 5x-Blues Music Award Winner & 10x-Blues Music Award Nominated Guitarist, Singer & Songwriter SUE FOLEY at the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market on Thursday April 30 at 7:30 P.M. are NOW On-Sale on Ticketmaster, Facebook Events at: https://www.facebook.com/share/1AvpnHBucc/ and the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market Website at: https://jazzandbluesmarket.com/event/sue-foley/ – Doors Open 2 Hours before the Show!!

 

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