Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Rod Fleeman, guitar, stands looking to the right of the photograph as Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks straight out toward the audience and plays his fiddle during the National Folk Festival. A banner...

Rod Fleeman, playing guitar; Claude "Fiddler" Williams, playing the fiddle; and Keter Betts, playing a double bass, stand on stage at the National Folk Festival in a tent. A banner hung on the tent...

Charlie Gabriel, saxophone, Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, and Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, all grin as they sing into a microphone held by Marcus in the center of the trio. Dan Pliskow, the double bass...

Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, looks seriously at a piece of music from his music stand that he holds in his hands, as he sits in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café...

Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, smiles as he stands outside the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), in the evening. He holds out his hand toward the name and logo of the...

Spencer Barefield turns in the dining chair he is sitting in to smile at a Saint Bernard that is sitting behind him. The dog faces the camera and has his back to Spencer. The front door is open with...

Spencer Barefield stands over and straddles a Saint Bernard facing the dog's tail and lifts his head to look at the camera. The dog turns his head toward the camera too since he is facing the open...

Spencer Barefield, holding a red jazz guitar, crouches down beside the seated double bass player, Marion Hayden, and Taslimah Bey, a jazz pianist. A wall of windows with blinds is behind them. The...

Spencer Barefield stands holding his red jazz guitar and looking over to the seated Marion Hayden, Taslimah Bey, and Charlie Gabriel on one side of the green room and Big Bill Bissonnette on the left...

The other players in an incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz pause to listen to the guitarist, Bill Wurtzel, take the solo. Jane Jarvis, is seated at the piano on the farthest left side of the...

From stage right, a grand piano sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands center stage...

From stage right, the stage steps lead up to a grand piano that sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler"...

From stage right, a grand piano sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands center stage...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing on stage with Steve Abshire, guitar, inside a church. Claude wears a brown leather suit as he stands center stage playing his fiddle. On the left side of the...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles at the audience from center stage as he stands, holds his fiddle waist high, tucked under his right arm, and his bow dangles from the fingers of his left hand. Steve...