Nick Shoulders, Nokosee Fields, and Roy Pilgrim

This is the kind of set that does not happen on a stage often: three songwriters and instrumentalists who know each other’s work deeply, trading songs, swapping instruments, and following the threads where they want to go.

Nick Shoulders is one of the most distinctive young voices in contemporary country, drawing on his Arkansas family’s traditional singing and pushing it into deeply original territory. Nokosee Fields, of Osage, Creek, and Cherokee descent, is widely considered one of the most provocative and significant young fiddlers in North American traditional music, carrying a Cherokee fiddling lineage into bold new work. Roy Pilgrim is a Fayetteville‑born fiddler and co‑founder of the Ozark Highballers, deeply rooted in early American fiddle music and the rural Ozark string band tradition.

Together, they offer a glimpse of what the future of American traditional music looks like, played by people who know exactly where it came from.