Heritage & Culture

Nicholas Edward Williams

Nicholas Edward Williams is a folk musician, multi-instrumentalist, and self-described flame-keeper Ñ a man who has spent years on the road tracing American music back to its roots and playing it forward. Blending Piedmont blues fingerpicking, old-time, ragtime, and early country with a voice that rolls like a mountain stream, Williams doesn’t simply perform these songs Ñ he resurrects them. His critically acclaimed recordings have charted internationally, and as the host of the roots music hist