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Peppino D’Agostino

Peppino D’Agostino has been hailed as “a guitarist’s guitarist” by Acoustic Guitar magazine as well as “a giant of the acoustic guitar” (San Diego Reader), and holds many top guitar awards, but the San Francisco Chronicle encapsulated the essential difference that distinguishes D’Agostino’s music when it dubbed him “a poet.”

A native of Italy, D’Agostino has made his considerable international mark as a musical artist on the guitar since he arrived in America a little over 25 years ago. The readers of Guitar Player voted him Best Acoustic Guitarist in 2007, and the following year in Acoustic Guitar’s People’s Choice Awards he won a Bronze medal for Best Acoustic Album of All Time for his 2002 release Every Step of The Way (tying with Leo Kottke, one of his prime inspirations) and another Bronze award as Fingerstyle Guitarist of the Year. But as said above, it’s not just his talent that makes D’Agostino so notable, but also what he does with it.

The Chicago Tribune praises his "virtuosity and complexity" as well as his gift for composing "memorable melodies." He is also an "astonishing entertainer" (Anchorage Daily News). Yet it's what Guitar One has noted as his "lyrical artistry" and fellow master player Adrian Legg describes as the "warm humanity" of his playing that has earned him the stature of being a "phenom," as Jazziz raves.