Reel World String Band

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Reel World String Band is an all-women roots music group from Kentucky. They released their first record in 1981. In 1991, band members Karen Jones and Bev Futrell hosted a radio show called Wominsounds, broadcast to Central and Eastern Kentucky from Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. The two-hour program featured music, readings, and announcements of events for women. In March 2016, George Ella Lyon, Silas House, and the Reel World String Band gathered at the University of Kentucky to celebrate the donation of the band's archives to the university and to honor the 30th anniversary of the Kentucky Foundation for Women. The band also performed at Lexington's Lyric Theater.