Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roni Stoneman, a country musician who was known as “first lady of the banjo,” and was seen by millions as a familiar face on ...

Akeman was born in Jackson County, Ky., in 1915, and he grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry, the Nashville radio program that featured country musicians like Uncle Dave Macon, who would become ...

Editor's note: Peter Cooper's reporting on the 1973 killing of David "Stringbean" Akeman and his wife, Estelle, is being republished on the fiftieth anniversary of their deaths. On Nov. 10, 1973, Tex ...

A featured player on “Hee Haw” and a member of the famed Stoneman Family, she was the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record. By Bill Friskics-Warren Bill Friskics-Warren ...

Roni Stoneman, the country star known as the “first lady of the banjo,” died Thursday. The “Hee Haw” star was 85. No cause of death was given. “For Roni Stoneman, known as ‘The First Lady of the Banjo ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Roni Stoneman, a virtuoso banjo player, mainstay of the country music television show “Hee Haw” and one of the last surviving members of the Stoneman Family, a renowned Appalachian ...