Roni Stoneman, a country musician who was known as “first lady of the banjo,” and was seen by millions as a familiar face on television’s “Hee Haw,” has died. She was 85.

Fleck was gifted his first banjo by his grandfather when he was 15 years old. He had always wanted a banjo, he says, but “never would have had the nerve to get one.” On the train ride home, a stranger ...

Arizona might seem like an unlikely spot for such a banjo scholar to emerge. But that’s where Flemons first became entranced by the instrument after borrowing one from a friend and playing along with ...

A decade earlier, Stoneman became the regular banjo player for the Stonemans, a family band led by her father, Ernest V. “Pop” Stoneman, a first-generation country star who, with Jimmie ...

"You never know what's going to happen, that's for sure," says Fleck, who was first smitten by the banjo as a 5-year-old living in New York and hearing Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs's "Ballad of ...

‘First Lady of the Banjo’: Roni Stoneman dies at 85 She performed on the show, ‘Hee Haw,’ from 1973 - 1990. The API failed to deliver the resource.

Get those banjos ready because this isn’t a joke. Actor and comedy legend Steve Martin will co-host the IBMA Bluegrass Music ...