WHAT A TRIP!!  Posted 7/30/2008

Hey Everyone, hope your summer is going good so far!! I can't believe it's almost August!! We just got back from our run through the New England states to do some shows and what a time we had. First we were off to Peekskill, New York for a show there. The scenery was absolutely beautiful!!! What an area!! We played in the park near the Hudson River and when the sun went down it was just incredible!! It was very hot but the crowd was so warm and welcoming. We had a ball what a great great night. Made some new friends and then we were off to Massachusetts for a show at the Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley, MA. That is close to our hometown so playing there is always a great night cause we get to catch up with all our fans who have been fans of The Roys since we played our local venues. The crowd again was great and it just went by way too fast. Then we were off to the Mishnock Barn in Rhode Island. We were delightfully surprised when we walked in the club. What an amazing place. The history there is just incredible where it's been in the family for many years and lots of Grand Ole Opry stars sang there in the 50's & 60's and it was just an honor to play there and see all those wonderful dancers and to meet new friends!! We loved it there. Great great place and great people to work with! Then we were off to the Indian Ranch to open for Phil Vassar. We went on first just before the RAIN can and rain it did. But, Country Fans are the best fans ever because when Phil came out and the rain came they stayed in their seats and just cheered him on. Then the sun came back out for the rest of the day and it was just perfect. Again met lots of new fans and had a great time. Played a show at the Brewery Exchange in Lowell. Great venue, great stage, great sound guys and great people to work with. Had a blast and can't wait to go again. Then the last show we opened for Chris Young at the Stratham Fair in Stratham, NH. The sun was shining all day and we even got to eat Lobster. What a treat for us, being from New England we miss our Lobster!!! Great show, great people and great fans, again always a warm welcome. Now the grand finale for us was Tuesday, July 29th. We were asked to sing the National Anthem at Fenway Park for the Red Sox!!!!! What can we say. It doesn't get much better than that. What an honor for us to get to do that. We got to go on the field and practice first during the day and just being on the field was just surreal. We sang the anthem at 6:55 p.m and it went by like way too fast. Our hearts were pounding and our palms were sweaty but we were so proud to be there in our home area for our beloved Red Sox. Everyone there was so nice to us. What great great people. We even took a bus tour of Boston before the game and got to experience a lot of the Boston history. It was just a great great day that we will never forget!!! Go SOX!!!!! Til next time....be safe and God Bless. The Roys Elaine & Lee

CMA Fest Wrapup !  Posted 7/2/2008

June 30, 2008 Hello everyone!!! Hope you are all well and enjoying your summer!! Ours kicked off with a bang when we attended our first CMA Fest as Artists and what a blast we had!! Our CMA Fest started with the Lonestar Bowling Event which raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We got to bowl with fans that attended the event. We had so much fun!! The best part of it is that we met new fans and that I got to beat Lee at bowling!!! Tuesday we performed at the Texas Troubadour Theater for a charity event for children also. Wednesday we were in the Parade that kicked off CMA Fest week. There were so many people on the streets waving and taking pictures. We were so impressed to see how dedicated Country Music fans were to stand out in the heat and wave to us!! Also, Wednesday evening was the Country Weekly Magazine’s fashion show, which again was a charity event. It was such a blast. We had never done anything like that before and were a little nervous when it came our turn to walk the catwalk, but we did okay, since we did not fall and that was our biggest fear!! Friday, we did an event for radio stations that were in town. We got to visit with the DJ’s from the stations and do liners and interviews. We played a few songs for them at the end of the event. Then we were whisked off to do an event with JD Haas and his radio winners down at Elliston Place Soda Shop. We got to meet all the winners and sang a few songs for them and got to visit and hopefully make new fans. Then we were off to the Sprint Booth to sign autographs. Saturday was the BIG day for us at the Riverfront Stages for our 15 min. show. We have attended many Fan Fairs and always dreamed that we would someday get to be up on stage and sing for the people. Well that day finally came. It was so so awesome and so much fun the only thing it went by in a flash and it was done!! We then went to the Borders Booth to sign autographs and meet more new fans. Sunday was the last day of events and we did the Little Big Town ride for a cure. Lee did good with the Harley since he got us there safe and sound HA!! The weather was very hot but the scenery was just incredible. Just a beautiful ride. We also sang a couple of songs at the end of the event also. It was just an incredible week for The Roys. The days were very very hot and sticky but the pay off was that we met new fans that really seemed to enjoy our music and we were honored that they would stand in line for us and meet us. Country Music Fans are the best fans in the world cause they are so loyal and hopefully we made a few along the way at the CMA Fest 2008!!!!

ACM WEEKEND!!  Posted 5/20/2008

What a weekend…...It started off on Friday, May 16th with an alarm clock going off at 5:15 a.m and getting picked up at 8:00 a.m and off to the airport to start our adventure in Las Vegas and all the festivities for the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards weekend!! Once we got there we thought we were in an inferno it was so so so HOT!!! Got checked in and got ready for the next day. Saturday up at 5:30 a.m got ready for the Montgomery Gentry 5th Annual ACM Charity Motorcycle Ride with many other artists. Some of the artists in attendance were Little Big Town, James Otto and Keith Anderson. We all hopped on our Harley’s (Lee was riding and I was on the back holding on for dear life!!!) and off we went to the top of Mount Charleston where we went to the lodge there which was about 180 miles round trip!!! A long ride for someone like me that had never been on a Harley in my life!!! Lee took good care of me but I was glad once we got back to point A. Once up top the mountain we ate and visited with other Harley riders that were also a part of the ride. There were probably 40 VIP’s and 1200 fan riders involved in this ride. There were bikes everywhere. Never saw so many in my life!! The weather was 102 and unbelievably hot!!! We had on number 50 sunblock!!! It was a wonderful experience and so much fun. Everyone got back safely and it was for a great great cause. Once we got back to point A we went to Fremont Street where there was a stage set up and they had a house band backing up artists and we got to sing 2 songs for all the fans that had gathered there. It was a wonderful end to a perfect day!!! Next day up again by 6:00 a.m and headed out to Mandalay Bay to the House of Blues club to do the JD Haas winners dream trip. Radio stations from across the country held contests and brought winners in to meet the artists and experience the ACM’s. We sang two songs acoustically and met many fans and were so proud and honored to be there and a part of that. Then we were rushed back to our rooms to get ready for the Awards Show. Got picked up at 2:00 p.m and got ready to walk the orange carpet at 2:15 !!!!! That’s right we walked the orange carpet with all the artists!!!! WOW!!!! What a surreal experience. There were photographers lined up yelling at us to look left, right, up and straight ahead. It was like the paparazzi!!!! Flashes going off everywhere. Then we were escorted down the carpet and were interviewed by different media outlets for TV shows like Country Music Across America with Storme Warren, Inside Music Row and also interviews for print ads for magazines. It was like nothing else we have ever experienced. Then it was off to the Grand Arena inside the MGM Grand where it was way cooler than the 105 degrees outside. We were sweating!!!! We were 11 rows from the front along side many artists and industry people. We could not believe this was happening to us!! We have been watching the ACM’s on TV for many years with our popcorn in hand and sound way up cheering for our favorites and this time we were actually a part of all those amazing festivities after all these years of dreaming about it!!! All I can say is DREAMS do come true so never ever stop dreaming and reaching for all your goals!! WE are living proof that dreams come true. Thanks to all our fans for your continued support and hope you enjoyed this journal cause this is for all of you who have supported us all these years!! God Bless Elaine and Lee

The Latest  Posted 4/8/2008

Hello everyone it seems like forever since we last updated our journal!! Well Spring is here and lots is going on. March was a very busy month for us. We attended the Country Radio Seminars in Nashville. That is when DJ's and industry people come in from across the nation and also from various parts of the world to meet and discuss the music industry. This is a very big week for artist like us. This is when we meet everyone and get to reconnect with people that we've met on the road during our radio tours. This was a much different year for us than last year when we attended. This time we got to play a couple shows and were part of the Artist Taping Sessions and did many many interviews with all kinds of media. We kicked off the week by playing at the Music Row Awards Show event. We played at the Second Fiddle on Broadway and the place was packed with wall to wall people. We had a ball!!! Robert K. Oermann which is a big music critic had this to say about our show: " After some more schmoozing, the brother-sister team The Roys provided the event’s finale. Elaine’s lilting hillbilly soprano and Lee’s hearty country-boy tenor were flawless in both lead and harmony passages. “Workin’ Girl Blues” kicked butt, and “Grandpa’s Barn” tugged heartstrings. The result was the strongest set ever performed at this six-year-old Music Row tradition. Wow!! That was a great review. Then we performed at the Wildhorse Saloon on Thursday with many different artists with Mark Chesnutt as the headliner. What an amazing night that was. It was a very busy and fun filled week and it was great to see everyone and get to play for them. Then the second week in March we were off on another radio tour. This time we were back in the Northeast with stops in Albany, NY, Poughkeepsie, NY, Portland, ME and then we were off to the station in Boston, WKLB, where we were a part of their St. Jude's Radiothon. What a thrill and honor that was to be a part of such a great cause to raise money for the children's cancer research hospital in Memphis, TN and to do it in our home turf area. We were so honored. We also played a live show at Jordan's Furniture where many of our fans came out to support us and help in this great cause. It was a very special day. Then it was off to Toronto, Ontario where we became members of the CCMA's and then we went to visit CMT Canada then it was back to Nashville. The following week we played the Billy Block show in Nashville at Cadillac Ranch on Broadway. What a great night that was too. We've also been tying up all the loose ends for the album. I know we keep saying this but we are very close and will update everyone on a release date shortly. Now we are getting ready to hit the road to do some shows with George Jones in Moncton, New Brunswick and also in Fredericton. We are so excited to be going to Canada. It will be like going home. Stay tuned for updates on our next journal on our Canadian Trip. As we speak our new single Grandpa's Barn sits at #42 on the Music Row chart and is being played on the big market radio stations also!! This is our fastest rising single to date. Happy Spring to all of you and God Bless!!

FROM THE ROAD !!  Posted 2/21/2008

Hello everyone and we hope this finds you all well!!! We hope your New Year is off to a good start. We’ve been busy putting the final touches on our album which will be released this year!! We are getting all of the artwork ready now and can’t wait to see it all put together. Also we just got back from doing 4 shows this week!! What a ball we had. First off we went to Coyote’s in Louisville, KY for the Farmers Convention. Met lots of nice folks from all over the place, Canada, Australia, and all parts of the USA. Then it was off to Rockingham, NC to play City Limits. What a great club that was. They even fed us an awesome meal of baked beans, slaw & chicken wings!! Yum Yum!!! It was delicious. Then it was off to Charlotte, NC to play at Buck Wilds. The place was packed and we had a wonderful time playing for all those nice folks. Then to top it all off we were off to Savannah, GA to open for one of the legends of country music Mr. George Jones!!!! Yeah I can’t believe it either. What an incredible night that was. When we first walked into the venue and looked out at this theater I started to cry. I couldn’t believe after dreaming about this our whole lives that Lee and I were going to play on the same stage as The POSSUM and play for a sold out crowd of 2400 people!!! WOW!!! The folks were so nice to us and really made us feel at home and we were received really well. We had the time of our lives. It was a great great week. The band did great at all shows and best of all our bus driver, Serge, got us there on time and safe!!! We were freezing in Louisville then when we ended in Savannah it was about 75 degrees!! Just a beautiful city. Can’t wait to go back to all those places and see all those nice folks again. We go back out with George to do a show in Lansing, MI next week. We are thrilled about that. And what a show he put on!! They don’t call him a Legend for nothing!!

Happy New Year!!  Posted 1/14/2008

Happy New Year Everyone!! Hope it will be a great year for all of us!! A lot has happened since the last update……………Our first single Workin’ Girl Blues ended up at #35 in the Music Row Charts. Our first top 40 EVER!!!!!! We were so very excited to say the least. Looking back at 2007 it was a great year for The Roys. The first part of 07’ was dedicated to recording our new album and the second half was dedicated to cross country radio tours visiting and introducing ourselves to radio. We opened shows for Collin Raye and Neal McCoy and did shows on our own with our wonderful band. We had our first real taste of touring on our bus with a band and we LOVED it and can’t wait to continue. Our video for Workin’ Girl Blues was added to lots of different video outlets and also it was added to the CMT Pure channel on Hey Ya’ll Watch This. According to the chart manager at Music Row: “The Roys debut, “Workin’ Girl Blues” bested four other duos with debut singles charting on Music Row this year.” Also, "Workin' Girl Blues" is Music Row's highest charting debut single for a duo in 2007. We also were a part this year of Christmas for Kids which is an event put on for kids in need. That was a wonderful and incredible thing for us to be a part of. What a great way to end 2007!! Now, 2008 is already off to a great start. We were the featured Who’s New in the January 14th Country Weekly Magazine. Our new single, Grandpa’s Barn is going for adds at radio on January 21. A lot of Music Row stations have already added the song or are already playing it and we have been getting great response so far. We also have a couple of big stations adding the song on the add date. That is all great great news. Also, this year we will be doing shows with George Jones!!! We are so excited about that. He is one of our idols so that will be a thrill. We will be performing at this years CRS in March and we will also be visiting St. Judes Hospital which we are very honored to do. That is a great organization. Our album will be released this year we are working on that now. We will continue our quest to get our name out there and spread the word about The Roys. Thanks to all of you out there for all your continued support and well wishes. Keep calling your radio stations and with a little luck and hard work “We’re Gonna Get There”. God Bless, The Roys

Happy Holidays Everyone  Posted 11/24/2007

Hey everyone hope all is well. In the last few weeks we’ve been busy doing all kinds of stuff. We have been doing shows in our home state and we’ve done shows in Louisville, KY and Raleigh, NC. Going home to do 2 shows was great. We have the best fans that have been so loyal to us and we so appreciate them and seeing our family is icing on the cake. The shows were just awesome. We did a show at the Andover Country Club in Andover, MA and a show in our hometown of Fitchburg at the Fitchburg Performing Arts Center. The Performing Arts Center is a church and the sound in there was just absolutely incredible. I have to say it was one of the best shows of my life. Everything just clicked. Great sound, band was smoking hot, great crowd, just awesome. When we got back we headed out for a radio tour in GA, AL & TN. Great week, met with lots of great radio folks and did a lot of singing live on the air!!! Back to Nashville and we were off to attend the CMA’s. What a show!! Our seats were great and the show was really good. We attended the after party and mingled with lots of folks. Then it was off to do our shows in Louisville and Raleigh. Coyotes in Louisville was great. The Saturday night crowd was hopping. Friday night we opened for Neal McCoy at the Longbranch in Raleigh, NC!!!! That was awesome. Neal came on our bus before and after the show and just hung out with us. What a nice guy and he is such a great singer and entertainer!!!! Now we are getting our second single ready to ship to radio and packaging the album so we can release it. Very exciting!!!! Our single Workin’ Girl Blues is still climbing the charts and we’ve gotten a lot of people telling us they are hearing it and seeing our video too!! We are so excited for 08 and all that is to come. We hope you all have great Holidays and be safe.

Here we are again!!  Posted 10/23/2007

Another Journal Entry for you…..This week our single is #46!!!!! We keep moving up. So exciting. Our video for Workin’ Girl Blues just premiered on the CMT Pure channel on the “Hey Ya’ll, Watch This” show!!! It aired on Thursday at 12:30 am so I taped it cause I was afraid that I would fall asleep which I did!!! But it aired again on Friday at 10:30 pm so I stayed up and watched it. This time was different cause I actually saw it in the moment on TV!!!!!! WOW!!!! My whole body was shaking. What an awesome and surreal thing!!! Today we sang in Huntingdon, TN at the Dixie Theater on the Fun on The Farm Show which was being aired live on the radio on 100.9. We sang 3 songs with the house band. They did a great job. It was so much fun. The audience was so nice to us and gave us some really nice compliments. Awesome!!! It’s all about playing for the people and getting all that great feedback keeps us going. We were also interviewed live on the radio before the show. Thanks to all of those good folks for having us out there. This week we also did two interviews for our hometown of Fitchburg, MA. We did an interview for the Sentinel & Enterprise and the Fitchburg Pride for our upcoming shows in our hometown area next week. We are really excited about that. We do a show in Louisville, KY and then head to the Northeast. Really looking forward to that. Keep posted, till next time……

Exciting Chart News  Posted 10/15/2007

Yeah everyone just updating you with more news!!!!!!!!!! Today we found out our single Workin' Girl Blues hit 47 on the Music Row Charts!!! We were so excited to say the least!!!! We have a wonderful team working hard for The Roys and we so appreciate all their hard work!!! Wednesday night we sang at the World Famous Bluebird Cafe with Kathie Baillie & Michael Bonagura (Baillie & The Boys) and Tony Kerr, in the round as they call it. We all sat in a circle and went around each taking a turn and singing original material that we wrote. That was one of the most awesome things we have done. For Lee and I to be sitting in that round with those great artist and songwriters was just such an awesome awesome and surreal thing for us. We were so honored to be a part of such a group!! Thanks for checking in and keep looking for our new entries!! Till next time.....

Hey everyone!!  Posted 10/4/2007

10/4/07 - Hello everyone. Here goes our next journal entry!! Well since September we have been on the road visiting radio stations doing a radio tour. Right now we are in Horse Cave, KY and this is our last stop till we head back to Nashville tomorrow after the station visit. Our song has climbed to #51 on the Music Row Charts!!! We were so excited when we heard the news today. Last week while on a radio tour we did some remotes at different businesses for the Workin’ Girl Blues promotion. We sang at Jerol Hopkins Ford in Covington, TN. Jimmy and Bill from the station were there with us. One of the employees from the dealership comes from our hometown!! He lived in Fitchburg & Leominster!! Now that is a small world! We also did a remote from a Sonic in Searcy, AR. Tom Scott the DJ was there hanging out with us. We sang a few songs and he interviewed us live on the air. What an awesome awesome guy!!! Was just a blast!! We also did a remote from Marion Toyota, Marion, IL with Juli from the radio station and we did the same thing sang live and were interviewed while being live on the radio. Meet some new fans there and Juli was a blast!! The last two weeks while visiting all these stations we have been singing live on the air and being interviewed. We have gotten emails from listeners who heard us on the radio!!! Now that is awesome. While leaving a couple of radio stations on our way to the next one, we heard Workin’ Girl Blues over the airwaves!!! What can we say AWESOME!!!!! Today while visiting the station in Liberty, KY after doing an interview and singing on the radio we went to a local restaurant, Emma’s Café, had lunch with Rick from the station & his wife Shelly and sang for the lunch customers. We are reaching new fans everyday and that is what it is all about. This is going to be a busy month for us with lots of different things going on. Keep posted!!

WHAT A BLAST!  Posted 9/5/2007

Hello everyone. Well here is our second Journal Entry for our new website. We just came back from opening a show for Collin Raye at the Indian Ranch in Webster, MA. What a wonderful show we had. We made lots of new fans and saw a lot of our regular fans attend the show. Thank you all for your great comments and nice words. We love that, it really keeps us going!!! Our song is #65 on the Music Row charts and we are really excited about that. Workin' Girl Blues has been added to Music Choice which is a comcast digital tv channel which plays music and they have added our song. They have also added the video. That is great news. We have heard from a few people that say they have heard it on there!! Sirius 60 is playing it and of course lots of Music Row stations. We just finished recording the last two songs from our album yesterday. We can't wait for everyone to hear the new stuff. Well bye for now and keep in touch. We will keep you updated with the latest news!! God Bless, The Roys

The Roys First Journal Entry  Posted 8/28/2007

8/28/07 -Welcome to our first Journal Entry from our brand new website! Well, so much has been happening so fast, that it is sometimes a blur!! Since June, we have embarked on our National Radio Tour visiting radio stations across the country introducing ourselves. We normally sit in conference rooms and sing for the Program Director and Music Director and sometimes staff members sit in. On a few occasions we have been live on the radio singing 1 to 2 songs and being interviewed on the air!! The first time we were live on the air was with Don Chase from WKML in Fayetteville, NC. That is always such a rush to know that someone is hearing you in their car or at work or at home, it is just awesome. We have been to the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast and West Coast. There are still lots of stations that we have not been to yet that we really want to visit and that is our main goal right now. It is so important that we introduce ourselves to the radio stations because that gives them a better idea of who we are and what we do. The competition out there is fierce!! We are all fighting for a couple of spots on the radio play list which gets smaller by the minute. That is why you the fans need to call and email your local radio stations and ask that they play The Roys and our new single Workin’ Girl Blues. The power of the people is what will get us out there, no doubt. We are #66 on the Music Row charts!! The video for Workin’ Girl Blues is being serviced now to various outlets. That is wonderful and very exciting. The first time we heard Workin’ Girl Blues on the radio was on WCTK in Providence, RI. We visited the station and Steve Giuttari had Robby (DJ) interview us. He told us this would be played back at the 5 o’clock hour so on our way to the next station in CT it came on. We pulled the car over listened to the interview and heard the single play. I was bawling and we were clapping and yelling. What an awesome moment!!! And to hear it on the radio in our hometurf for the very first time was just amazing!!!!!! Then, Lee and I heard ourselves on Sirius radio. We did not know they were going to play Workin’ Girl Blues and they announced that it was coming up next and we heard it. Wow to say the least!!!! I was jumping for joy. We were so excited. Dreams do come true!!! Thanks to all of you and your continued support we are following our hearts and living our dreams. We can’t believe how much our lives have changed in the last 12 months. We have a single out at radio, visited many radio stations, we are members of the ACM’s and CMA’s, we’ve been in trade magazines, filmed a video, recorded a new album and numerous things we can’t even think of!!! Just an amazing start for The Roys!!! But even better than all of that, our fans have been so supportive and we are making new fans everyday and that is just amazing!! Keep checking our website and come along for the journey with us. God Bless, The Roys