COLLEGE OF PIPING CONCERT, GLASGOW WEST END FESTIVAL 2010
"I have been priviledged to attend many Donald Black concerts and this was up there with the best of them." Neil Murray/"Glasgow Letter"
Oban Times 01-07-10

THE VIKINGAR / LARGS
"Musicians Donald Black and Malcolm Jones showed why they are among the most respected in the Scottish scene."
John Blair / Largs

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
"Holding an audience in thrall is what any performer hopes to achieve, and supreme musicians, Malcolm Jones on accordion and Donnie Black, with his mouthorgan did just that at this years Edinburgh Festival during their frenzied foot-stomping set. The pace was Electric at the Ross Bandstand in the citys Princes Street Gardens as the duo connected with all ages… punctuating their performance with whoops, clapping and jigging feet."
Melinda Gillen - Celtic World

TØNDER FOLK FESTIVAL / DENMARK
"…a most convincing mixture of sure-footed professionalism, sense of entertainment, and a complete absence of anything pretentious. What a pleasure it would be to have this duo back."
Thorbjorn Sjogren - Folk and Musik
"…Donald Black and Malcolm Jones… offered colourful dance tunes filled with energy, but there was also room for the more romantic works."
An evening in Visemollen

HEBRIDEAN CELTIC FESTIVAL / ISLE OF LEWIS
"… a virtuoso performance of harmonica playing… Donnie Blacks range of repertoire was exceeded only by the power and emotion of his playing. I felt drawn into Donnies world of… musical expression and this stayed with me through into the following day. I think we all felt privileged to have enjoyed a wonderful performance from such a fine artiste. Malcolm Jones provided guitar and accordion accompaniments carefully controlled to allow Donnie maximum space for his interpretations…"
Stornoway Gazette

MACNAS / QUEENS HALL / EDINBURGH
"The duo of harmonica player Donald Black and Runrig guitarist Malcolm Jones… brought a shiver of blues to the Highland tune sets."
Kenny Mathieson - The Scotsman

MACNAS / HENRY WOOD HALL / GLASGOW
"…the river in spate mastery of Donald Black, to accompaniment by Malcolm Jones ranging from propulsive box playing to yearning… guitar atmospherics."
Rob Adams - The Herald

CELTIC CONNECTIONS FESTIVAL - GLASGOW
"…Black proved that this oft-maligned instrument can be just as expressive, just as colourful as any of its big cousins…"
Rob Adams - The Herald
"…The instrument isnt often thought of as a Scottish dance band instrument, but in the hands of Argyll born Donald Black, it comes across in a whole new fleet-footed light.
Sue Wilson - The Scotsman
"…there was more than a touch of the traditional Highland ceilidh about this near sell - out show… combining rock-steady country-dance timing with an appealingly skittish swing, Black adorned his sets of jigs, reels and marches with a silky breadth of tone."
Sue Wilson - The Scotsman

EDINBURGH FOLK FESTIVAL
"Donald Black is a great player of the traditional dance band style on the non-chromatic harmonica… he treated the audience… to some exquisite slow airs and… gorgeously syncopated reels… we left breathless."
Norman Chalmers - Scotland on Sunday

BALNAIN HOUSE / INVERNESS
"Donald… had an amazed audience calling out for more… with native artfulness which made the place sing…"
Johnny Campbell - Living Tradition

TAIGH DHONNCHAIDH / NESS / ISLE OF LEWIS
Black and Jones Raise the Roof "A packed Taigh Dhonnchaidh witnessed a star performance from two of the brightest lights on the Scottish traditional music scene. Ace harmonica player Donald Black and multi-talented Malcolm Jones of Runrig… offering a virtuoso performance to a highly appreciative audience."
Stornoway Gazette

COWALFEST / STRONE & STRACHUR
"Seemingly relaxed stage presence belies the enormous professionalism and thought that goes into making their whole concert into an event... The experience is essentially not cerebral, but their natural, crisp rhythm gets us in the gut and the heart in a primal way."
Mark Morpurgo - Cowalfest
"Donald, accompanied by Malcolm Jones of Runrig fame, captivated the audience... This was international class traditional Scottish Mouth Organ playing of immense enjoyment to both harmonica aficionados and those who find it hard to believe that the humble harmonica can sound so good."
Dave Hambley- British Harmonica league

S.P.A.H. - KANSAS CITY / USA
"It was great to hear you at S.P.A.H."
Charlie McCoy - Nashville