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2006 Hall of Honor Inductees
The Lewis Family
Known nationally and internationally as an icon in southern gospel string band singing and playing in bluegrass style. The Lewis Family has played a highly significant role in popularizing the bluegrass gospel genre and bringing it to prominence since the all-family group’s formation in 1951. For 38 years, 1954 until 1992, the group hosted its own weekly television show on WJBF-TV, Channel 6 in Augusta, GA. Numerous awards include induction into the prestigious Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1992; Grand Ole Gospel’s Living Legend Award and gospel’s highest honor, induction to The Gospel Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. Based in Lincolnton, Georgia, from the beginning, the performing family’s founder and patriarch, Roy (“Pop”) Lewis, died in 2004 at the age of 98. He was beloved by many thousands of bluegrass fans. Ironically - though a number of The Lewis Family’s major awards have come from the southern gospel field - the band has long been billed as America’s First Family of Bluegrass Gospel Music and the vast majority of the more than 200 dates played annually are on the bluegrass festivals and concerts, beginning in late 1969 on the earliest Virginia bluegrass events.
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