- Aliases
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Luella Gardner
- Real name
- Sarah Samantha Biddix
- Born
- October 31, 1880
- Died
- December 24, 1960
- Country
- United States
- Comments
- Samantha Bumgarner was a country music fiddler and banjoist pioneer born in Tennessee and raised in North Carolina. She was the first woman to make a country music commercial recording and probably the first person of either gender to make a commercial Appalachian style banjo recording. In 1939, Bumgarner traveled to Washington DC with Bascom Lamar Lunsford to play for President Roosevelt and the Queen of England.
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