Lance LeRoy Collection

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Lance LeRoy Collection

1950-2013

https://mtsu.edu/popmusic/findingaids/pdfaids/LanceLeRoyCollection.pdf

This collection consists of materials collected and used by artist manager Lance LeRoy and his agency company the Lancer Agency. The manuscript papers consist of handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, articles from magazines, correspondence, photographs, performance documents, various industry contracts, forms, and accounting records. Also included are reel to reel tapes of performances. <p> <p> Lance LeRoy, from northern Georgia, was an artist manager and agent who started the Lancer Agency. Through his company, he most notably represented Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass from 1969 to 1979, followed by the group The Bluegrass Cardinals. Mr. LeRoy produced photographs and articles for bluegrass trade magazines including Bluegrass Unlimited. His photographs were used as publicity photographs for many of the artists he represented. He often wrote liner notes for their albums. LeRoy brought many industry leaders together and led various meetings that would develop into the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) in 1985. Mr. LeRoy received the IBMA Award of Merit (Distinguished Achievement Award) in 1994 and was inducted into The International Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2000.

12.5 linear feet

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Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 11675375

Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University

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