Jimmy Keane is a London-born English musician of Irish origin and a specialist piano accordion player.
In addition to his solo career, in the 1980s he was part of the folk trio Moloney, O'Connell & Keane, then in ensemble Green Fields of America.
In the mid-1980s, he became part of the revamped Green Fields of America an ensemble which performs and promotes Irish traditional music in the United States with Mick Moloney, Robbie O'Connell, fiddler Eileen Ivers (from Riverdance), multi-instrumentalist Seamus Egan (from Solas) and Donny & Eileen Golden, recording an album called The Green Fields of America: Live in Concert in 1989.
In the mid-1990s, Keane and O'Connell formed the group Aengus and recorded All on a Christmas Morning for the RCA Victor label.
Keane founded the group bohola in 1999 with Pat Broaders (bouzouki, dord and vocal) and Seán Cleland (fiddle, viola).