Sean Williams

Sean Williams teaches ethnomusicology, Irish Studies, and Asian Studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She was raised in Berkeley, and played bluegrass guitar and banjo in high school in the 1970s. With a BA in classical guitar performance and a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, Sean is a multi-instrumentalist and singer of musics from Ireland, Brazil, and Indonesia. She has taught at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, Northwest Women’s Music and Art Celebration, and the Sean-nós Northwest Festival (Irish music and dance). In her spare time, she writes books about world music, food, and grammar