Fine traditional music, where it started - right at home.
July 23, 2023: 5:00 - Nicholas Edward Williams - Host of the popular roots music history podcast American Songcatcher, Nicholas Edward Williams is a multi-instrumentalist and storyteller who is dedicated to "playing it forward" by preserving the songs and styles that have shaped our country: ragtime, Piedmont blues, traditional folk, old time and early country. Williams has spent the last 15 years touring around the US, the UK, Western Europe and Australia, blending the roots music spectrum to his own style.
“I’ve become a student again. I’m absolutely fascinated with tracing American music back to its immigrant roots, and how these styles have woven the fabric of roots music as we know it today.” The troubadour tells stories of the silent, simple perils of the average Joe. He plays on the cliche rhythms of married life, the age of convenience, the footprint of our generation, paying homage to his musical heroes, imagery of men drinking to the follies of America, and good old-fashioned murder ballads.
Williams has his own brand of satire, simple honesty, and vivid imagery that translates into energetic live shows, harnessing rhythmic fingerpicking, soaring vocals, rolling harmonica, heart-thumping stomp box and charismatic whistling. All of which is backed with engaging descriptions and infectious personality between songs.
David Holt (performed w/Doc Watson) said: "With tasteful guitar arrangements and a voice that draws you right in, Nicholas’ recordings roll along like a mountain stream.”
https://nicholasedwardwilliams.com
Next - 11/12/23, 5:00 - Allison Lupton - Some fine Canadian fiddling along with roots and traditional songs. Should be terrific.
Past Performers - from 19 different states and 5 countries
11/09 – Beaucoup Blue, new blues, father/son harmony - from Pennsylvania
6/10 – Rick Hill, uplifting songs and traditional folk - from Maryland
11/10 – Sparky & Rhonda Rucker, Appalachian music - from Tennessee
11/10 – Paul Asbell, acoustic country blues - from Vermont
5/11 – Elizabeth & Sandy LaPrelle, Appalachian music, a cappella & accompanied - from Virginia
11/11 – Andy Cohen, blues and a mixed song bag - from Tennessee
4/12 – Gordon Bok, songs of the Maine sea and coast - from Maine
4/12 – Elizabeth LaPrelle & Friends, ballads and crankies - from Virginia, New York, & Maryland
12/12 - Sara Grey & Kieron Means, traditional music from all over the US, from Scotland & NY
4/13 - Larry Hanks & Deborah Robins, great old American songs from all over, from California
5/13 - Lipbone Redding, a virtual one man orchestra & what fun, from North Carolina
8/13 - John Byrne Band, traditional Irish and originals, from Pennsylvania
11/13 - Sparky & Rhonda Rucker - Civil War, Civil rights, environmental & just good songs, from Tennessee.
1/14 - Beppe Gambetta - Songs from Italy, Appalachia and all over, with thundering good flatpicking, from Italy and New Jersey
4/14 - Woody Pines - very uptempo trio, country blues to ragtime to rockabilly, from Tennessee
7/14 - Ann Armstrong & Steve Hughes - Delta blues, from Texas.
8/14 - Del Rey - blues & ragtime, from Washington State
11/14 - Larry Hanks & Deborah Robins, eminently singable but little-known songs, from California
3/15 - Mike + Ruthy (& Willy) , new songs that sound older, from the mid Hudson Valley
4/15 - GX3+, instrumental music from around the world, from the upper Hudson Valley
8/15 - Tom Akstens & Neil Rossi - old timey, from Vermont and NY
9/15- Jon Shain - Piedmont blues inspired songs, from North Carolina
10/15 - Roy Book Binder - blues and ragtime, from Tampa
1/16 - Beppe Gambetta - flatpicking virtuoso, from Italy and New Jersey
5/16 - Stu Fuchs w/Sarah Carlisle - all sorts of music, mostly uke, from New Hampshire
9/16 - Mele'uhane - modern Hawaiian, from - Hawaii
11/16 - Tim & Myles Thompson - blazing instrumentalists, from Nashville
3/17 - Andy Cohen, blues & blues history, from Memphis
4/17 - GX3+ - Latin-flavored guitar-centric, from the Capital District
9/17 - Kevin Neidig - mostly originals, from Pennsylvania
10/17 - Claude Bourbon - multi-styled guitarist from Europe
3/18 - Bob Bovee, traditional music, lots of cowboy songs, from Minnesota
4/18 - Blind Boy Paxton, blues, old jazz and more, from California via NYC
5/18 - John Byrne Band, Irish, from Philadelphia
9/18 - Corn Potato String Band, - variety of old time, crankies, flatfooting, classical banjo, from Michigan and Alabama
2/19 - Andrew Collins Trio -jazz, classical, Appalachian, bluegrass..., from Canada
3/19 - Jim Kweskin w/Samoa Wilson - old-time, blues, early jazz. From California & NYC
4/19 - Easy Ridin' Papas -early jazz & pop, ragtime, hokum, blues, from Massachusetts
6/19 - Hoot 'n' Holler - old and new oldtime, from NC
3/20 - Doc Watson Tribute - cancelled: corona virus
12/22 - Maria Zementauski & Sten Isachsen - guitars!, from the Capital District
2/23 - Piedmont Bluz - like the name says, from NYC
Past Workshops
Jon Shain - fingerpicking guitar
Andy Cohen - music theory
Andy Cohen - guitar
Paul Asbell - blues guitar
