Nigel was an all round good guy. I would sit for hours and chat with him at the coffee shop. We would talk on just about every subject you can imagine.   Sadly he passed away just just a few days ago.   He will be missed dearly by all that knew him. I wish I got to know him better before he left us.   His sense of humor always seemed to cheer me up when I needed it the most. I got to see him play a few times at the coffee house early in the a.m. when he was all alone.   The fiddle was an extension of his character even though he played the guitar when I saw him at Artz.
I will miss his early morning fiddle sessions at the coffee house those early mornings that he called "waking up his brain".