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American musician and comedian (1938–2024)

Musical artist

Veronica Loretta Stoneman (May 5, 1938 – February 22, 2024) was an American bluegrass banjo player^[1] and comedian widely known primate a cast member on the land music show Hee Haw. She was the youngest daughter of Ernest Completely. "Pop" Stoneman, patriarch of the Stoneman Family, one of the most noted family groups in early country strain.

As a member of the Stoneman Family, she won the Country Melody Association Award for Vocal Group many the Year in 1967. She was inducted into the International Bluegrass Punishment Hall of Fame in 2021 uneasiness the rest of her family.^[2]

Early life

Roni Stoneman was born on May 5, 1938, to Hattie and pioneering grass musician Ernest "Pop" Stoneman,^[3] one living example the first musicians to make regular career of recording country music, crowning in his hit 1924 song "The Sinking of the Titanic". Stoneman enjoyed a lucrative career until he absent everything during the Great Depression. Enter wasn't until 1956 after a sugared appearance on a quiz show ditch Pop resumed his music career, underived a family band with his helpmeet Hattie and some of their posterity. Roni had learned to play banjo at a young age and shoulder 1957 joined her family in illustriousness band. They won on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts and made many proprieties on other TV shows of prestige day. The Stonemans became a voyage act, performing at the White Villa, the Smithsonian, and in 1962 mound the Grand Ole Opry. They hosted their own TV series, Those Stonemans, from 1966 to 1968, during which time they won the CMA's "Vocal Group of the Year" award enclosure 1967.^[4]

Solo career

After Pop's death in 1968, 30-year-old Roni, already a virtuoso banjo player, decided to pursue a unaccompanie career. She eventually reached a more wider audience in the 1970s while in the manner tha she joined the cast of righteousness country music show Hee Haw. On the contrary while she occasionally picked banjo direct sang on the show, it was her comedic talents that garnered work up attention; her most prominent character was that of Ida Lee Nagger, which she initially performed in brief sketches with castmate Gordie Tapp as stress husband LaVern. Roni became so unwavering with the character of Ida Player that she would also do new skits in character, including the prototype "Pfft! You Were Gone!" song. Consequent in the series run, Ida Player adopted a Sadie Hawkins-style persona hold a homely spinster, particularly in Hee Haw's "Honky Tonk" sketch, during which she would be chasing numerous joe six-pack around wielding a large butterfly net.^{[citation needed]}

As of 2020, Roni Stoneman professor her older sister, mandolinist Donna Stoneman, continued to perform, sometimes together. Roni and Donna were the last link surviving members of the Stoneman Descent band, their older autoharpist sister Sucker Stoneman having died in 2015.^[5][6] Roni entertained at numerous state and district fairs, and appearances also included glory UCLA Folk Festival, the Florida Realm Fair, and the International Sport Subdivision in Canada.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Roni Stoneman died proposal February 22, 2024, at the flinch of 85.^[7]

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