Black Cloud Productions artist Sarah Blacker will treat you like an old friend before a show and stop you dead in your tracks once she starts to sing. Her songs are mature with sharp, eloquent lyrics that are easy to relate to and a seemingly endless ability to capture audiences of all kinds with her unique and aesthetic sound. Though just the size of a woodland fairy, (as her logo illustrates) he
... [More]r instrumental skills on the guitar, mandolin, piano and djembe (and a current student of the ukulele) are enough to make any fellow male peers weak in the knees, (and equally as impressed) with a sound much bigger than her size.
Recent winner of the Radio 92.9/ Boch Subaru contest as judged by thousands of listeners, and finally Ernie Boch Jr. himself, Sarah Blacker is the current voice and face of the New England Subaru, “Ooh, ooh it’s love,” TV and radio ad campaign. Bob McKillop head of Mainfolkmusic.com states, “Sarah Blacker’s voice is sweet, clear, sharp, and precise, supple, happy, and full of mischief. She sounds like a street-savy urban vocal busker with world-class voice training.” SevenDays VT says, “Sarah Blacker is an old soul in a modern woman’s body. “ She has also been named, “the perfect blend of Ella Fitzgerald and Joni Mitchell,” and a ‘River Rising Star’ by Boston’s Independent Radio, 92.5 the River. Candy O’Terry of Magic 106.7 calls her “an artist our listeners should know about,” while many local and national DJs (Cat Wilson of WCIB Hyannis, Carmelita of WAAF Boston, and Brad Savage of WCNR Charlottesville, VA to name just three) have also taken a shining to Blacker and regularly promote her record and her busy touring schedule. Barbara Dacey of WMVY, Martha’s Vineyard also chose her newest record’s single, ‘I Should Speak‘ as number 2 on the station’s ‘Best of Unchartered Waters’ charts.!