Dean Hinesley, Buddy Lancaster, and Glen Shanks perform at the Friday Night Hootenanny
at the Stone County Courthouse.
This Ozark Folk Center 50th Anniversary Legacy Photo is in memory of Buddy,
who enjoyed making music with friends and family for many years.
Sponsored by the Family of Buddy Lancaster
Although this group didn’t have a band name, they played together often at the courthouse hootenanny. Buddy Lancaster was a part of the group that traveled to Washington D. C to play for the congressional delegation in the effort to secure funding for the Ozark Folk Center. He played fiddle and mandolin and was a much sought after musician in the area.
When Buddy was young, A violinist from Chicago moved to Mountain View and lived behind the Lancaster home. The Lancaster children called him Derby because of the hat he wore. He often played on his front porch and the boys would visit him… they loved to hear him play.
Very quickly Buddy, who was blessed with musical talent from his ancestors, was playing the fiddle. Buddy learned just from hearing Derby play his violin in addition to “inside knowledge” from Derby. He was so interested that every evening he would sit on the family’s front porch and practice with the fiddle until bedtime. Buddy’s brother Harold remembered he got tired of him practicing. It was a trying time for the brothers and sisters to have to listen to the never ending high pitched screeching going on!
The Lancasters, Hinesleys and Shanks families lived close to each other when the boys were young. Dean and Buddy were good friends of Glen Shanks’ son, Earl. They all came from a long line of musicians. Dean recounted how Glen learned to play the banjo in the late 70s (much later than Dean and Buddy) by purchasing reel to reel tapes and listening. He learned to play all three “styles” of banjo—blue grass, frailing, and old time music very quickly.
Entry by Harold Lancaster.
Hubert Kendrick, Jimmie Driftwood, Willie Morrison, Charles Johnson, Buddy Lancaster, Bookmiller Shannon, and Tommy Simmons. The two seated men, without instruments, are
U. S. Congressmen E. D. "Took" Gathings and Wilbur Mills.
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FUN TIMES!