Bill Keith | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Bill_Keith,_banjoist_on_stage_at_Cambridge_Folk_Festival,_July_1985.jpg) Bill Keith on stage at the 1985 Cambridge Folk Festival | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | William Bradford Keith |
| Born | December 20, 1939 Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | October 23, 2015 (aged 75) Woodstock, New York, US |
| Genres | Bluegrass, Country |
| Occupation | Bluegrass artist |
| Instrument(s) | Banjo, steel guitar |
| Years active | 1960s – 2015 |
William Bradford "Bill" Keith (December 20, 1939 – October 23, 2015) was a 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.