NICK CHARLES
With dazzling fingerpicking on six and twelve string guitars and a lifetime’s stories and songs gathered on the world’s musical highways, Nick Charles has long been labelled internationally as “Australia’s virtuoso of acoustic roots and blues”.
During his acclaimed career, Nick has released sixteen albums on Australian and US roots music labels that have garnered world-wide recognition beginning with My Place and now his most recent release Further Down The Line
This recognition has succeeded in having Nick signed to the Grammy Award winning label, Solid Air Records USA (“Home of the World’s Finest Guitarists”). He has toured with and supported artists including John Hammond, Guy Clarke, Ralph McTell touring the US thirteen times, performing more than 300 shows stateside in recent years.
The music encompasses an eclectic mix of blues, folk, country and early ragtime jazz. Along the way there are stylish nods to the Great American Songbook and the finest contemporary players.
Nick was Port Fairy Folk Festival Artist Of The Year 2014, won the AGE Blues Album of the Year 2016 and every other Victorian and national acoustic and blues award on multiple occasions. He’s also twice winner of the Australian Song Contest.