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| Carthy Sisco Lee Stripling Jim Ketterman Jim Evans Glenn Berry Harry Johnson Jeff Anderson Marilyn Scott Gil Kiesecker Floyd Engstrom Stuart Williams Vivian Williams Author: Brid NowlanPhotographer: Doug PlummerAbout the projectExhibit ScheduleWA State Old Time Fiddlers Association Home PageArchivesHome
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One of
Stuart’s early musical memories is of a treasured record of Ozark mountain music.
Growing up in the small town of Portage, Michigan, he played recorder with an early music
group and took some piano lessons. At twelve he took up the guitar and soon began
performing with his older sister at the local coffeehouse. His father, Glenn Williams,
played violin. Glenn’s mother played both guitar and mandolin, and had performed in a
mandolin orchestra in the nineteen twenties. Stuart’s other grandmother "played
old Methodist and Baptist hymns on her old reed organ." Stuart began playing fiddle in the early seventies, shortly before he moved to Eugene, Oregon. There he was welcomed into the local community of fiddlers. "They were delighted that somebody was interested in their music. For most of them, it was the end of the line for this music in their families that had gone generations back." Stuart moved on to Seattle and settled in to the music scene there, bringing his lively dance fiddling to contra dances and jams around town. He now teaches, privately and at workshops, plays as often as he can with the older fiddlers and documents the local tradition.
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