Interview with Roni Stoneman, August 2, 2005

Project: Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum Oral History Project

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Roni Stoneman played banjo in the Stoneman Family band, as well as the role of Ida Lee Nagger on the television show "Hee Haw." In this interview, she discusses her family's musical abilities and how the older generations taught the young people to play. She talks about her parents' music careers and her father recording the Bristol sessions. She describes the difficulty of growing up during the Great Depression in a one-room house with a tarp for a roof. She talks about the formation of the Stoneman Family band, winning contests, and learning to play the banjo. She talks about the environment of playing in honky tonks, playing on the West Coast, and playing at the Grand Ole Opry. She discusses gender roles in Bluegrass, the difficulty and struggle of trying to survive financially in the music industry, and leaving the Stoneman Family band to be on "Hee Haw."

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2018oh277_ibmm071

Interviewee Name

Roni Stoneman

Interviewer Name

Ellen Wright

Interview Date

2005-08-02

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Stoneman, Roni Interview by Ellen Wright. 02 Aug. 2005. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Stoneman, R. (2005, August 02). Interview by E. Wright. Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Stoneman, Roni, interview by Ellen Wright. August 02, 2005, Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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