WSLR Presents: Nicholas Edward Williams (QUINTET) with Randy Steele (SOLO)

5500 Saint Elmo Avenue,Chattanooga TN 37409

23 June, 2022

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The Woodshop Listening Room Presents: Nicholas Edward Williams (QUINTET) + Randy Steele (SOLO) Thursday, June 23, 2022 Doors at 7, Music at 8 $10 presale tickets, $15 day of show FOOD + BEER + WINE + LIVE MUSIC ------------------------------------------------------------- Opening: Randy Steele An award winning banjo pickin' singer/songwriter from Chattanooga, Tennessee, Randy Steele's first solo album was released in early 2017 followed by an EP released in the summer of 2018. Both albums were met with critical acclaim and spotlights from dozens of music critics, including Relix Magazine, No Depression, and The Bluegrass Situation. In 2018 Steele won an Independent Music Award for Bluegrass 'Song of the Year' for "Mobile Soon" and was also selected as a Finalist in the New Song LEAF Songwriting Competition. Steele then spent 2019 hard on the road clocking in 90 shows in 17 states in 47 cities before being forced off the road by the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic. 2021 started off with a successful spring tour in South Carolina and a summer full of full band and solo shows. Randy began recording his next album in May 2021 and is currently booking shows and festivals in a few select repeating markets for solo and bluegrass band performances for 2022. ------------------------------------------------------------- Headlining: Nicholas Edward Williams (Quintet) Joined by Gordon Inman (Clarinet), Jade Watts (Harmonies, Upright Bass), Emma Dubose (Harmonies, Fiddle), and Cody Ray (Harmonies, Guitar), Nicholas Edward Williams is host of the popular roots music history podcast American Songcatcher, 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 in his own style. He's opened for Taj Mahal, The Wood Brothers, Dom Flemons, CAAMP, John Paul White, Town Mountain, Jontavious Willis, Lucy Daucus, Ghost of Paul Revere and John Craigie, and has performed at festival stages on three continents. William's debut record "As I Go Ramblin' Around" made the International Folk Radio DJ Charts in 2019 with the #6 Top Album, #7 Top Song. His critically acclaimed sophomore release "Folk Songs For Old Times' Sake" unveiled in November of 2021, and has been heralded by the likes of Grammy-winning musician David Holt who said: "With tasteful guitar arrangements and a voice that draws you right in, Nicholas’ recordings roll along like a mountain stream.” "The guitar playing and vocal performance are fantastic, and I love the sparse production. I think people are gonna love this, it’s a great record.” - Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers) - "Nicholas’ voice sounds natural, unaffected, and without any trite attempts at emulation; rather, it seems wholly a product of his surroundings, with small nods to the phrasing and inflection that are the signatures of traditional American music." - JP Harris - “This record of well-known and well-loved folk songs is easy to like." - David Holt (PBS TV Host and Grammy-winning musician) -