Nick Charles

With dazzling melodic fingerpicking on six and twelve string guitars and a lifetime’s stories and songs gathered on the world’s musical highways it’s no surprise that Nick Charles has long been labelled internationally as “Australia’s virtuoso of acoustic roots and blues”. During his extensive and acclaimed career, Nick has released sixteen albums on major Australian and US roots music labels, recordings that have garnered world-wide recognition beginning with My Place and now his most recent release Guitar Music 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, Robyn Ford, Junior Wells, Taj Mahal and BB King touring the US thirteen times, performing more than 300 shows stateside in recent years. The music encompasses a delightful, eclectic mix of acoustic roots, including blues, folk, country and early ragtime jazz. Along the way there are stylish nods to the “Great American Songbook” and the finest contemporary players and composers. 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 awards on multiple occasions. He’s also twice winner of the Australian Song Contest. He writes monthly columns in Rhythms Magazine and Trad and Now.