Nicholas Barron (born in the U.S. Virgin Islands) is an American folk music and blues guitarist based in Chicago, Illinois. Beginning as a street performer, Barron progressed to sports radio and TV commercials and then to opening for musicians such as B.B. King, Al Green, Johnny Cash, and the Neville Brothers. His first album, Nicholas Barron and Waymon Davis, was released in 1989. In 2007, he was featured in the New York Times Emerging Artist Series. He is currently signed to CandyRat Records and regularly performs around the Chicago area, both as a solo musician, and with his bands the Nicholas Barron Band, and 312 Chicago.

Barron sings like those blues cats that used to play on Maxwell Street. He performs and writes a mix of Acoustic Folk, Blues and Soul music ; spiritual, real, and deeply poetic. He plays guitar in a style that is truly his own; at once percussive and highly rhythmic with big beautiful chords and in funky tunings with his original one man band attack.

He started in the subways and streets in all kinds of crazy Chicago weather. He founded C.A.S.A. (Coalition for the Advancement of Street Art) to stop the city from banning street art/performance and he and his fellow buskers won!

In January 2007 the Nicholas Barron Band was introduced by James Taylor as the launch artists for the New York Times Emerging Artists Series who called his CD "I'm not Superman", "Undeniable". The record was beautifully co-produced by Steve Gillis and Vijay Tellis Nayak who also play drums and keyboards with Nicholas. Nicholas just signed a deal with acoustic label Candyrat Records out of Milwaukee and recorded his first solo acoustic CD called "As I Am". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.