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    • Sep 9, 1910
    Norman Wayne Perry is born in Fayette County, Indiana. He will marry Evelyn "Daisy" Lange, bass player for The Coon Creek Girls
    Aug 16, 1915
    Charlotte "Rosie" Ledford is born in Powell County, Kentucky. She joins The Coon Creek Girls, the first all-female stringband, and the first country group to perform at the White House
    Feb 6, 1916
    Mandolin player Esther "Violet" Koehler is born in Wilton, Wisconsin. As an adult, she joins the Ledford sisters in The Coon Creek Girls, the first all-female stringband
    Mar 17, 1917
    Lily Mae Ledford is born in Pilot, Kentucky. She becomes the leader of The Coon Creek Girls, the first all-female stringband, and the first country act to perform at the White House. She also gives birth to Exile's J.P. Pennington
    Jul 7, 1919
    Bass player Evelyn "Daisy" Lange is born in St. Henry, Ohio. She becomes a member of The Coon Creek Girls, the first all-female stringband, which forms in 1937 for "The Renfro Valley Barn Dance" in Cincinnati
    Oct 10, 1923
    Fiddler and banjo player Minnie "Susie" Ledford is born in Powell County, Kentucky. She joins sisters Lily May and Rosie Ledford in the all-female stringband The Coon Creek Girls when the group undergoes a lineup change in 1939
    Oct 9, 1937
    The Coon Creek Girls make their concert debut at the Cincinnati Music Hall
    May 30, 1938
    The Coon Creek Girls record "Sowing On The Mountain" and "Pretty Polly" in Chicago
    Jun 8, 1939
    The Coon Creek Girls become the first country act to perform at the White House, when Franklin D. Roosevelt hosts England's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
    Apr 28, 1941
    Evelyn "Daisy" Lange, of The Coon Creek Girls, marries Norman Wayne Perry in North Star, Ohio
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