Sue Foley
Shortly after The Recording Academy announced this year's Grammy nominations, Notodden Blues Festival can announce that the now Grammy-nominated artist Sue Foley is ready for the festival at Notodden on the first weekend of August 2025.
Sue Foley has been nominated for a Grammy Award for the album ONE WOMAN GUITAR in the category "Best Traditional Blues Album". This is an acoustic blues album where Foley interprets female blues icons such as Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Elisabeth Cotton, etc.
Based in Austin, Texas, Sue Foley is best known for her signature style of electric Texas Blues. It is with this format, as we know her best, that she comes to Notodden. Sue Foley often collaborates with other strong Texas guitarists such as Jimmie Vaughan and Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top.
Sue Foley spent her early years in Canada and started her professional career at the age of sixteen. At twenty-one, she moved to the music city of Austin, Texas. Here she quickly established herself in the environment around the blues club Antone's and got a record deal with Antones Records - the renowned blues company and the historic nightclub that helped launch the careers of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Omar & thye Howlers, Lou Ann Barton, Marcia Ball, etc.
Sue Foley is a four-time winner of the Blues Music Awards for Traditional Blues Female Artist (Koko Taylor Award) in 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2020. She was also honored as Guitarist of the Year and Blues Artist of the Year at the 2023 Austin Music Awards, receiving Lifetime Achievement /Blues with a Feeling Award at the 2024 Maple Blues Awards in his native Canada. Her album PINKY'S BLUES took home the "Best Traditional Blues Album" award at the Blues Music Awards 2024 in Memphis Tennessee.
In other words, Sue Foley is a highly meritorious artist with a career where all arrows are pointing upwards. It is with great pleasure that we can present Sue Foley and her trio from Texas to the Notodden Blues Festival 2025.