A native of Newfoundland, Keith is an accomplished composer and arranger in the realm of traditional music and has also composed for theater and film. He is a featured performer on well over a dozen recordings and a guest musician on numerous others. His versions of traditional songs have inspired recordings by other groups including Solas, Uncle Earl and Great Big Sea.
His direct and intimate style of traditional singing infuses old ballads and songs with a powerful immediacy while his rhythmic and percussive style of guitar playing brings new shape and color to his songs. His 2005 album, Bound for Canaan showcased his refined sense of balance between innovation and tradition while his most recent CD, Suffer No Loss (2014) is a beautifully spare recording in the style of early classic recordings of the traditional English and Celtic music revival.
Keith is a faculty member of the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC) and the artistic director of the BMC’s Northern Roots Traditional Music Festival in Brattleboro Vermont which he founded in 2008. He is also the music director for the WGBH Boston public radio’s annual Celtic Sojourn St Partick’s Day concerts.
We’re very pleased to welcome him into the growing family of P.I.M.W. instructors!