"One of this country's most interesting acoustic guitar talents."
Australian Guitar Magazine
"Like Leo Kottke and John Fahey on the instrumentals and John Prine on the songs."
fRoots Magazine (UK)
"Barefoot Wonderland is right: Bernasconi is so laid back here you can see the soles on those bare feet."
Rolling Stone Magazine (AUS)
About
Straddling styles and sounds from the Delta Blues, Appalachian Bluegrass, English Folk and all stops in between, Justin Bernasconi is a rarity among guitarists and songwriters, his highly original tunes are infused with exciting and soulful guitar playing.
His current album Barefoot Wonderland was been embraced by fans and critics alike, with Acoustic Magazine (UK) describing it as ‘a dazzling gumbo of songs’. Embarking on a nationwide Australian tour throughout 2017, he also flew to the UK to launch the album at The Greenote Cafe in London. UK magazine fRoots simply wrote ‘like Leo Kottke and John Fahey on the instrumentals and John Prine on the songs’.
Raised in the small Cambridgeshire village of Warboys - famed for witches and WW2 Lancaster Bombers - Bernasconi was never short of a story to tell. He moved to Australia in 2004 and formed The Stillsons in 2006. In 2014 he released his solo debut album Winter Pick. Produced by Jeff Lang, the album not only featured stories from his childhood growing in rural Cambridgeshire, but also demonstrates his love of British and American folk guitar styles. In a review in Australian Guitar Magazine, he was named as ‘one of this country’s most interesting guitar talents’.
He is currently working on his third solo LP with producer Jeff Lang, and you can catch him perform with a series of shows spread out throughout Nov until Feb.
His current album Barefoot Wonderland was been embraced by fans and critics alike, with Acoustic Magazine (UK) describing it as ‘a dazzling gumbo of songs’. Embarking on a nationwide Australian tour throughout 2017, he also flew to the UK to launch the album at The Greenote Cafe in London. UK magazine fRoots simply wrote ‘like Leo Kottke and John Fahey on the instrumentals and John Prine on the songs’.
Raised in the small Cambridgeshire village of Warboys - famed for witches and WW2 Lancaster Bombers - Bernasconi was never short of a story to tell. He moved to Australia in 2004 and formed The Stillsons in 2006. In 2014 he released his solo debut album Winter Pick. Produced by Jeff Lang, the album not only featured stories from his childhood growing in rural Cambridgeshire, but also demonstrates his love of British and American folk guitar styles. In a review in Australian Guitar Magazine, he was named as ‘one of this country’s most interesting guitar talents’.
He is currently working on his third solo LP with producer Jeff Lang, and you can catch him perform with a series of shows spread out throughout Nov until Feb.