African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak as an unidentifed white female fiddle player and double bass player, and an unidentified, seated, white male jazz guitarist perform. The double bassist is nearly completely obscured by Claude, yet her face and bass are visible.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-116.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage wearing an overcoat and fedora hat as he plays the fiddle with Russ Long, a keyboard player, who is sitting next to Claude at the Old Northeast Festival in Kansas City, Missouri. The date, "10 16 '99," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-117.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
An African American male guitarist leans over and smiles, as he holds the neck of a guitar, to be included in a photograph with Claude "Fiddler" Williams who sits and holds his fiddle by the neck. Both wear tuxedos with bow ties.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-118.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage wearing an overcoat and fedora hat as he plays the fiddle with Russ Long, a keyboard player, who is sitting next to Claude at the Old Northeast Festival in Kansas City, Missouri. Two people with cameras have their back to the photographer as they stand by the edge of the stage. Houses and a church are behind the stage. A banner hangs from the stage front that reads, "One, Inc. Old Northeast, Inc. Serving Historic Northeast Since 1984." The date, "10 16 '99," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-119.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams and an unidentified white man stand in front of a sculpted bust of President George Washington in the White House in Washington, D.C. as Claude has been presented with the Folk & Traditional Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Art Master Artist for 1998. He holds up the framed certificate and grins at the camera. The man looks down at the certificate. Claude wears a boutonnière.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-120.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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 wall behind the stage reads, "National Folk Festival. Stage Presented Byߪ"
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-121.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Clark Terry, flugelhorn, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, Buddy Tate, saxophone, and others including a drummer and a trombone player, perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival to a crowded venue.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-122.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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 running along the stage edge can be partially read, "National Folk Festival. Stage Presented byߪThe Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga. Always Coca-Cola."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-123.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
In a photograph from the side of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the edge of the stage playing his fiddle and facing the seated audience. The back of the unidentified African American keyboard player is to the photographer. An unidentified African American double bass player stands behind Claude with his side to the photographer.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-124.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
In a photograph from the side of the stage, at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends toward the audience on the edge of the stage playing his fiddle. The back of the unidentified African American keyboard player is to the photographer. The audience is clapping and smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-125.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
A seated audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, claps along enthusiastically at a concert of Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a band who are out of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-126.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Richard Ross stands and speaks into a microphone from the edge of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The unidentified African American drummer, double bass player, and keyboard player that are accompanying him are mostly out of the photograph. A part of the audience is visible beyond the drum set.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-127.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Richard Ross stands and smiles as he sings into a microphone he is holding in his left hand. Larry Holloway is playing the double bass behind Richard as they perform at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. An unidentified man's head is on the left side of the photograph, possibly a person from the audience.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-128.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Richard Ross, jazz singer, smiles at the audience as he stands behind a microphone at the edge of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill, 43rd Street, Kansas City, Missouri. The back of the keyboard player is in the foreground of the photo and the bass player stands behind the keyboard player.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-129.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Joe Cartwright, keyboard player, leans over the keys and looks to his right as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill, 43rd Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the right side of the photograph, partially out of the photograph, with his fiddle tucked under his left arm. Larry Holloway can be seen at the back of the stage in a blur, playing a double bass.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-130.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
