Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veronica Loretta "Roni" Stoneman, banjo player, comedian and cast member on the long-running television show Hee Haw, died ...

Before stars like Reba McEntire, Dolly Parton, and Shania Twain took over country music, there were artists like Roni Stoneman. Sharing her love for both country music and comedy, the star quickly ...

Roni Stoneman, the “first lady of the banjo,” who picked her way into bluegrass and country music history as a member of the Stoneman Family band and found wider fame as an irascible performer on “Hee ...

Walden S. Fabry Collection, courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Roni Stoneman, a country musician who was known as “first lady of the banjo,” and was seen by millions as a familiar ...

Roni Stoneman, a member of the pioneering country music family the Stonemans and a fixture on the banjo, died on Wednesday (Feb. 21), according to a statement from the Country Music Hall of Fame and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WENN Rights Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo The woman known as the 'First Lady of the Banjo' has died at age 85. Roni Stoneman, known for ...

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 ...

Roni Stoneman, banjo player and beloved "Hee Haw" star has died at the age of 85. Born in 1938 to Ernest V. "Pop" and Hattie Stoneman, Roni was the second-youngest of her father's 23 children. She ...

No cause of death was released, Variety reported. Roni Stoneman was born Veronica Loretta “Roni” Stoneman, according to Billboard. She was known as “The First Lady of Banjo,” according to a statement ...

Born in 1938 to Ernest V. "Pop" and Hattie Stoneman, Roni was the second-youngest of her father's 23 children. She played banjo in the Stoneman family band, one of country music's earliest family ...

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 ...