Acclaimed roots music artist William Lee Ellis is a fingerpicking guitarist and songwriter who has been hailed a “wizard on steel strings” (Blues Revue) and "one of our finest contemporary songwriters" (Living Blues). His latest album, the Yellow Dog release Ghost Hymns, was a Blues Music Awards nominee for Acoustic Blues Album of the Year and proclaimed one of 2023’s best records by DownBeat, Blues Music magazine, and others. The son of banjo/fiddle composer Tony Ellis, William holds a PhD in ethnomusicology, has played Mountain Stage, MerleFest, and the Kennedy Center among many venues, and is a guitar-instructing alum of Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch and Augusta Blues Week.