Bill Keith (musician)

For other people named William Keith, see William Keith (disambiguation).
Bill Keith
Bill Keith on stage at the 1985 Cambridge Folk Festival
Background information
Born
William Bradford Keith

(1939-12-20)December 20, 1939
Boston, Massachusetts, US
DiedOctober 23, 2015(2015-10-23) (aged 75)
Woodstock, New York, US
GenresBluegrass, Country
OccupationBluegrass artist
InstrumentsBanjo, steel guitar
Years active1960s – 2015

William Bradford "Bill" Keith (December 20, 1939–October 23, 2015) was an American five-string banjoist who made a significant contribution to the stylistic development of the instrument. In the 1960s he introduced a variation on the popular "Scruggs style" of banjo playing (an integral element of bluegrass music) which would soon become known as melodic style, or "Keith style". He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2015.

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