Nikki Matheson

Nikki Matheson was born in Toronto to a French-Canadian mother and Scottish father but the bi-lingual, musically omnivorous household soon relocated to the greater New York area. After attending university in the USA and France, she was drawn into the Manhattan folk scene where, mentored by Dave Van Ronk and jazz-diva Janet Lawson, she honed her instrumental chops on piano, guitar, Irish pennywhistle and bass clarinet, refined her vocal and songwriting skills