Roni Stoneman, Country Music’s ‘First Lady of the Banjo,’ Dies at 85

Roni Stoneman, Country Music’s ‘First Lady of the Banjo,’ Dies at 85

The New York Times - Music:

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.

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