Bill Nershi affectionately called "the Nersh" (born September 16, 1961 in New Jersey) is a founding member and acoustic guitarist in The String Cheese Incident, an American jamband from Boulder, Colorado and also for Honkytonk Homeslice with his wife Jilian. Nershi has written a good number of String Cheese Incident's staple songs and often provides vocals. He is married to Jilian Nershi, with two daughters and resides in Nederland, Colorado. It was announced in November 2006 that Nershi currently plans to leave SCI in the summer of 2007. Billy Nershi has currently started a new project with Drew Emmitt from Leftover Salmon. They are currently doing some massive bluegrass picking with Andy Thorn on banjo and Tyler Grant on bass. The Emmitt Nershi Band played several shows the fall of 2007 mostly in Colorado and Illinois. They also performed at the Rothbury Music Festival in Michigan in July 2008, and at the first annual DelFest in Cumberland, MD, in September 2008. Some of his family resides in Perrysburg, Ohio.

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Trivia

• Billy is known for his quirky sense of humor and once invented a fantastical story surrounding the name "The String Cheese Incident" on national television when interviewed by CNN the second year that they played (the mainstage a)t Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
• One (of many) of Billy's most endearing qualities is(was) the Group Hoot, in which he urges the audience to make as much noise as possible. The endearing part is that it was not in homage to the band, but for the communal experience of making a lot of noise with a big group.
• Billy first played electric guitar with the String Cheese Incident at Newport Folk Festival in honor of Bob Dylan. The move was largely seen as a reaction to the sense of losing control of the band, but most would agree that it honored neither his primary strength as a lyrical songwriter nor his secondary strength as a flat-picker. During the band's last shows at Red Rocks in 2007, someone gave Billy a hollow-body electric—a move that should have happened 4 years prior.
• It is always Billy's birthday in Telluride. The first weekend they headlined Town Park (not during the Telluride Bluegrass Festival), Billy's wife Jillian was brought to the stage in a giant cake to honor the tradition. There was a bottle of Patrón on stage as well. It is unclear whether Patrón or Jägermeister started the tradition.

Bill has been in attendance at center ice of the Xcel Energy Center for every Minnesota Wild game since their inception.