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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.

Bill Friskics-Warren
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Country Music, Deaths (Obituaries), Hee Haw (TV Program), Stoneman Family (Music Group), Stoneman, Roni (1938-2024), Tennessee
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