Bronwyn Keith-Hynes

Musician · b. 1992 · Charlottesville, Virginia · Also a recording artist
Best known for Fiddle

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes is a fiddler who came to bluegrass through Irish traditional music and has become one of the defining players of the current generation — twice the IBMA’s Fiddle Player of the Year, a Grammy winner with Molly Tuttle’s Golden Highway, and a bandleader in her own right.

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  • Born March 2, 1992, and raised near Charlottesville, Virginia, at the foot of the Blue Ridge, she started fiddling as a small child on Irish repertoire and moved into bluegrass as a teenager.
  • She studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she met the players who became Mile Twelve.
  • Mile Twelve, which she co-founded, took the IBMA’s Emerging Artist award in 2020 and made the progressive-but-grounded string-band records that first got her noticed.
  • Her solo album Fiddler’s Pastime (2020) is a straight bluegrass fiddle record of the old kind, made deliberately against the grain of the newer music she also plays.
  • She was named IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year in 2021 and 2022.
  • She joined Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway in 2021, playing on Crooked Tree and City of Gold, both of which won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
  • Her bow arm is the thing other fiddlers talk about — long, even strokes and very little ornament, a sound that owes as much to Kenny Baker as to any of her contemporaries.
  • In this catalog she appears with Golden Highway on “Crooked Tree” and “Cold Rain and Snow,” with Mile Twelve, with Billy Strings on “I Haven’t Seen Mary in Years,” and on her own “Hello Trouble.”

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