Posted inBluegrass Music Country Music Deaths (Obituaries) Hee Haw (TV Program) Stoneman Family (Music Group) Stoneman, Roni (1938-2024) Tennessee
Roni Stoneman, Country Music’s ‘First Lady of the Banjo,’ Dies at 85
A featured player on ‘Hee Haw’ and member of the famed Stoneman Family, she was the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record.