Wow ..new to me but born this day In 1920, Maurice Bolyer, billed as the “King of the Banjo,” was born in Edmundston, N.B. He played with Hank Snow in the early 1940s, and later in the decade was heard on the CKNX Barn Dance from Wingham, Ont. Bolyer also performed on Main Street Jamboree from CHML in Hamilton, and later became a regular on Tommy Hunter’s radio and TV shows on the CBC. He died on Aug. 18, 1978.
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