NIGEL STONIER is a producer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from North West England.

He has recorded and performed with a vast range of artistes including Thea Gilmore, Clare Teal, Mike Scott and the Waterboys, Martha Wainwright, John Bramwell (I Am Kloot), Fairport Convention, Joan Baez, Sandi Thom, Paul Young, Rod Clements and Lindisfarne.

After a tenure as guitarist/songwriter in the band Northern Sky, who achieved national UK airplay and acclaim, it was in the early 90s that Nigel first turned his hand to production, producing albums by BBC Folk Award winning singer/songwriter Chris While and Italian million seller Mal in the same year.

Always a restless musical spirit with a passion for many different styles of music and a desire not to be pigeon holed, Nigel's diversity soon began to show as in 1994 he recorded an album with John Bramwell (of I Am Kloot fame) and simultaneously began his enduring co-writing relationship with Clare Teal, now well established as an international award winning jazz chanteuse and the presenter of BBC Radio 2's Big Band Show.

Soon afterwards Nigel was to cement another long running musical relationship - with UK roots-rock icon Rod Clements, the Lindisfarne founder member and Bert Jansch collaborator. Nigel and Rod became a regular songwriting team, penning material for two complete Lindisfarne albums and supplying young pop star Erin Rocha with her top 40 hit "Can't Do Right For Doing Wrong". Nigel has also produced two Rod Clements solo albums "Stamping Ground" and "Odd Man Out".

The legendary Fairport Convention joined the long and varied list of Nigel's musical bedfellows when, whilst producing an album at their studio in Oxfordshire, the band asked Nigel to co-write material for them. Nigel and Chris Leslie soon co-authored a stream of songs which entered the bands repertoire and formed the bulk of their next album "The Wood And The Wire". The title track, written by Nigel, has become a latterday live anthem for the band, and subsequent albums have also featured Stonier compositions.

It was in Fairport's studio that Nigel was to meet Thea Gilmore, the singer/songwriter with whose career he has been inextricably linked ever since. Nigel has produced 8 studio albums for Thea, during which time her work has been described as 'blazing a unique path towards classic status'. As well as regularly achieving chart positions Thea's work has been publicly lauded by a range of icons including Bruce Springsteen, who expressed his admiration for Thea's work and confirmed that her version of Dylan's "St Augustine", chosen and produced for Thea by Nigel) was one of his favourite cover versions, and now regularly includes it in his pre-show music.

After touring with Thea and Nigel, Joan Baez asked Nigel to produce backing vocals for her last album "The Day After Tomorrow", and then in 2006 Nigel found himself onstage with another iconic North American singer Martha Wainwright, in whose London shows he participated and whom he joined on piano at The Bloomsbury Theatre for an intimate, rapturously received version of "Who Was I Kidding".

In the same year "Messin' With Fire" a song Nigel wrote with Clare Teal back in the 90s was re-recorded and featured in the Box Office Smash UK Comedy movie "Confetti"

In 2007 Nigel produced the debut album for UK roots rockers Katy Lied "Late Arrival", and co-wrote the title track which soon became a fixture on the BBC Radio 2 playlist. Katy Lied's follow-up album "Echo Games", again produced by Nigel, has just been released to critical acclaim.

Always passionate to work with new acts who inspire him, Nigel has also recently produced debut albums by Yorkshire based folksinger/poet Stuart Negus, and the contemporary acoustic blues trio The Martin Harley Band, which is already receiving national airplay.

On the live concert stage, he has toured the UK and US prodigiously with Thea Gilmore over the last five years, normally playing guitar, keyboards and bass... and in addition to acts mentioned above he has also performed onstage with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Kathryn Williams, Peggy Seeger, Eliza Carthy, Robbie McIntosh, Mary Lee's Corvette and countless others.

In 2008 Nigel - in conjunction with Thea Gilmore whom he married in 2005, and musician 'Fluff' -launched "Words And Music" an all new music, poetry and literature festival in the Cheshire town in which all three live.

Nigel has - perhaps surprisingly given all of the above - found time to release four solo albums. A fifth - "Notes From Overground" is released March 29th 2010.