Sonny Black
Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle and Bottleneck Originals, Blues, Rags and More!"

" In concert Sonny performs a variety of intimate, soulful acoustic and slide guitar tunes with influences from Blues, World Music, Jazz and Country  ...  you could not have hoped for a better night of guitar roots and blues tunes." - Venue Magazine

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Press Kit & Info

Bookings now being taken for 2011 - 2012
You can contact Sonny directly for performance or guitar workshops at  info@sonnyblack...

The following information is intended for promoters and the media:

Choose which package you are interested in booking:

• Sonny Black (solo)
• Sonny Black  (duo with Chris Belshaw on bass)
• Sonny Black and the band.

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Press clips:

"An outstanding artist."  - Paul Jones, BBC Radio 2

“A quiet treasure…relaxed, uplifting almost spiritual”  - Blues Revue USA

"Sonny got everybody settled with an instrumental, a slide guitar conversation  that caused rapturous applause at the end”  - Blues in Britain/Farnham Festival Review

“If the blues is indeed a feeling, then Sonny Black's guitar conveys that feeling better than most.” - Blues Revue-USA

"Heart and Soul - the Blueprint album of the year" - Fran Leslie Editor Blueprint Magazine

“A Sonny Black performance takes you from the Delta to the borders of jazz and back again” - Blues On Stage

"There is no one to touch him in this country for wringing true emotion out of his instrument. His technical mastery of acoustic and electric instruments is complete...he possesses that quality that can only be called blues soul." - Blues In Britain

“One of the most inspired, thinking guitarists in the UK”. - Red Lick Records

“Ragtime, jazz standards, all sorts flowed effortlessly and the enraptured crowd of 300 or so were so quiet you could have heard a plectrum drop.” - Swanage Festival Review

”Top drawer" Time Out

“You could not have hoped for a better night of guitar roots and blues tunes” - Venue Magazine

“…and if Sonny Black is playing near you solo, duo or with a band, do yourself a favour, go and see something very special” - Phoenix FM