Roni Stoneman, bluegrass’s ‘first lady of the banjo,’ dies Roni Stoneman, pictured circa 1965, was inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Stoneman Family in 2021.

The last time I talked with Roni Stoneman, she was fired up about a show she had played with her sister Donna. In their 80s and game as ever, the Stoneman sisters still performed together like they ...

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 ...

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 … ...

Veronica Loretta Stoneman was born on May 5, 1938, in Washington, D.C., the youngest daughter of Ernest and Hattie (Frost) Stoneman. Her parents had 23 children, only 15 of whom reached adulthood.

Roni Stoneman, who was part of the long-running television show, “Hee Haw,” died Thursday. She was 85. >> Read more trending news No cause of death was released, Variety reported.