Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Description
Claude "Fiddler" Williams (22 February 1908 - 25 April 2004), violinist and guitarist, was born Claude Gabriel Williams in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Williams enjoyed a great deal of well-deserved acclaim in the twilight of his long jazz career.
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LaBudde Special Collections
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams tries out a Mark Wood Viper violin

Claude "Fiddler" Williams concentrates as he tries out a Mark Wood Viper violin while John Blake provides accompaniment by playing the piano at the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Conference in San Diego, California. John's head is turned away from the camera and toward Claude. Two more conference attendees stand behind Claude and John.
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Blanche Williams' husband, Claude "Fiddler" Williams

In a double photograph, Claude "Fiddler" Williams' promotional photograph on the left of him holding up his fiddle with the body on a table he is seated at and the neck held beside his face as he smiles at the camera. And a photograph on the right of Blanche Williams standing behind an upholstered chair that Claude is sitting in on a stage in a brightly lit room. Printed between the photographs in white ink on a red background, "Claude "Fiddler" Williams, husband of Blanche."
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147