Janis Martin Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony !!!

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Janis Martin Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Sunday, July 20, 2008
4:00 pm

Please join the Danville Museum, along with the opening reception of New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music,
in its induction of Janis Martin.



Janis Martin was a Danville resident and she was known (and still is) nationally as well as internationally as “The Rockabilly Queen” and “The Female Elvis”.

Martin was born in Sutherlin, Virginia and at the age of eleven she began her musical career as a member of the WDVA Barndance in Danville, VA. She was spotted performing at the Tobacco Festival in South Boston at the age of thirteen and soon became a regular on the Old Dominion Barn Dance in Wheeling, WV. In March of 1956, at the age of fifteen, she cut her first RCA session and became known as “The Female Elvis.” She was voted the “Most Promising Female Artist of 1956” by the annual disc jockey convention and she later received the Billboard Magazine Award. Janis performed on the Ozark Jubilee and the Grand Old Opry. She also became known through television media as a guest of the Tonight Show, the Today Show, the Grand Old Opry and American Bandstand.


Janis was living in Danville when Rockabilly became popular once again in the 1970s. Having raised her son, she went back on the road and her son accompanied her on drums. In the 1980s her popularity was revived in Europe. On March 27, 1982 Janis celebrated her 42nd birthday with ten thousand fans in Holland. Janis was scheduled to perform this past July at the Americana Festival in England but had to cancel due to poor health. Janis died from cancer on September 3, 2007.


Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History
975 Main Street
Danville, Virginia 24541

434.793.
5644

Source : http://www.danvillemuseum.org/index.php?page_id=169

GENIAL

J'avais vu ça, j'ai même pas eu l'esprit de le mettre ici ! pfff !! j'ai vraiment la tête ailleurs !!!

Pearly