File:Lew Simmons.jpg

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English: Lew Simmons, a 19th century musician who played blackface minstrel music. He was instrumental to American music beyond his own genre by influencing Samuel Swaim Stewart to take up the banjo. Stewart would be one of the forces in bringing the banjo to art music.
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Source The Times, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10 Sep 1893, page 16
Author https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45824414/the-times/

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Lew Simmons, a 19th century musician who played blackface minstrel music

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