Diane Ponzio, tutor on our singing and strumming workshop

Diane Ponzio is a native New Yorker who writes songs, plays the guitar, and sings her songs all over the world… a global minstrel.

Diane plays acoustic folk that feels like jazz and features:

  • strong melodic structure
  • haunting use of language
  • themes relevant to real life
  • a provocative, saxophone-like voice
  • groove-laden percussive guitar style
  • refreshing, diverse, and unpredictable
  • CHARISMATIC stage presence

Diane has performed in Concert  and run workshops in the United States, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, Austria, France, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand.

A few reviews of Diane:

Lydia Hutchinson, Editor, The Performing  Songwriter magazine:
” Diane Ponzio is a first-class writer and musician, and one of the most entertaining performers around. She’s  the real deal.”

George Wurzbach, National Projects Director, Songwiters Guild of America:
” It’s remarkable how Diane’s songs take you someplace. They scoop you up, excite emotion, lay you back down, and you’re grateful for the journey.”

C.F.Martin IV, CEO, Martin Guitar Company:
” Every time she plays, I can’t help but feel she’s playing just for me. Then I look around the audience, and it seems as if everyone else feels the  same way.”

Akustik Gitarre Magazine, Germany:
” What would occur if one tried to find an appropriate stylistic “drawer” for Diane Ponzio? Certainly one would pull out “folk” as the first drawer. But then a drawer for jazz would have to immediately follow. And then for Chanson and Blues. At some point, this type of thinking would have to be given up because Diane makes, if one, after all must try to categorize it, popular music in the best sense-that is, in an intelligent manner and on a high musical level.”

DIANE  has played a Martin Guitar for her entire professional career,and has been a clinician for the company since 1986

Diane also travels all over the world  and gives free presentations about The Martin Guitar. Her knowledge of the company’s history and aspects of guitar construction, makes her clinics informative and compelling for the acoustic guitar enthusiast.