Guitar
Nikki O'Neill is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter, deeply influenced by Soul music, Rock and Americana, and all about playing for the song.
She's an active recording/performing artist, signed to Blackbird Record Label. Her third album, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, is coming out in March. Featuring eleven songs written by her, the album is currently on the Americana charts and it’s supported by the Illinois Arts Council, as they chose Nikki as one of their 2025 grant recipients.
Nikki genuinely loves to teach and to make music a part of people's lives. Students have described her teaching as encouraging; skilled and intuitive; breaking things down in a way that really works, and easy to understand from playing to theory.
She has taught private lessons, group guitar classes at New School University in New York; international clinics; workshops with NAMM, after-school programs, and she has also taught video lessons on YouTube.
She's also the author of the instruction book, Women's Road to Rock Guitar (Alfred Music).
Nikki graduated with a Bachelor's degree from New School University, majoring in music performance. She also majored in guitar at two full-time music programs in Stockholm, Sweden (Kulturama, Sodra Latins musiklinje). Nikki has studied privately with Adam Levy, Dustin Barber, and Vadim Zilbershtein.
Started at the Old Town School in August of 2021
