Steven King, full variety guitarist &/or Sweet Music band

• Your ensemble is led by master guitarist Steven King, International Fingerstyle Championship winner!
• Microphones and PA system, so music, speeches and toasts are heard and appreciated.
• Non-overbearing emcee service, guiding scheduled events smoothly to keep your timing as planned.
• Early arrival and set up so you know everything is perfectly on schedule. Never a set up fee.
• Professional musicians that can play classical, jazz, rock, swing, country, ballroom, latin, ethnic, & broadway.
• Your musicians are dressed in tuxedos and black tie, unless you prefer a more casual or theme attire.
• Atmosphere MP3 music played softly on breaks when requested. We have music or you can supply it.
• A repertoire that is UNMATCHED in the industry. If you don't see your special song on our website list, just ask!
• You may peruse our web song list and formulate ALL the music we will play, or let us choose from your styles.
• Optional cocktail music segment with Fingerstyle Champion Steven King on solo guitar.
• Your choice of instrumental dance music, atmosphere music, or include female and male vocals with harmony.
• Hire your Steven King reception band and you get a discount on your ceremony music.
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Steven King, World-acclaimed champion Solo Fingerstyle Guitarist, and his dance band “Sweet Music” is unmatched in variety repertoire & expert musicianship, with a mix of contemporary, jazz, show tunes, classical and big band swing, and covers dance music from the 1920’s through the 90's.

Available for ceremony, cocktails and reception dance music. Wedding Music Specialists, both ceremony & reception! Sweet Music will bring back your cherished childhood and school memories with his selections of music from past eras... songs to make your guests and relatives want to sing along and dance! Whether solo, duo, trio, quartet or quintet, SWEET MUSIC ensemble, will charm and entertain!

Solo Guitar accomplishments:
Winner of the coveted World Fingerstyle Championship, Winfield KS 1994;
21 CDs recorded and sold online, many still in print via CD Baby, iTunes. etc.

ACTUAL PRESS ACCOLADES:

"I've never heard anyone play bass lines, chords and melodies simultaneously, with such precision, as Steven King..." -Wayne Johnson, guitarist for the Manhattan Transfer.

"...I wrote 33 articles for ‘Guitar Player.’ I have more than 8,800 jazz guitar recordings and nearly 2000 jazz guitar videos...I feel qualified in saying Steven King is the greatest solo guitarist I’ve ever seen or heard!" -Robert Yelin, music professor and Guitar Player Magazine columnist

"And I thought Joe Pass had chops… Now, along comes King, transforming his lone guitar into an even fuller ensemble capable of playing more complicated arrangements…He has no apparent peers..." - Dirk Sutro, former jazz critic for the Los Angeles Times; author of Jazz for Dummies; and host of "The Lounge"
on KPBS-FM San Diego.

"...If you want to literally hear John and Paul's (The BEATLES) voices in the guitar strings and again, exquisitely well-played guitar music, put on any one of the Steven King CDs. You will not be disappointed by any of these CD's" .-web review published article "Four Fabulous guitarists play the FAB FOUR!" By James R. Webb

"It’s hard to top Steven King... He knocked us silly with solo acoustic renditions of the Benny Goodman staple 'Sing, Sing, Sing' and Dave Brubeck's odd-meter workout 'Blue Rondo A La Turk'." - Guitar Player Magazine

I have the "technical" stuff covered. I bring love of music, appreciation and joy, and love of people. I know that since I sincerely feel these things myself, and since I so enjoy playing good music and creating a wonderful ambiance and sound, that it helps make my music enchanting and uplifting. I am also very particular about playing very fine instruments, using fine sounding amplifiers, making the sound as amazingly good as I can.