This is my grandmother, Joe Renee Shuffield Niesen. She was named after her father, who I think wished she had been a boy.

He kind of got his wish. In 1938 she was 18 and tenacious. She convinced the men’s military marching band in Little Rock, Arkansas to let her audition.

She was so good they made her the soloist.

As the band toured throughout the Midwest, she got her own private hotel room, along
with a chaperone.

~shared by @andrewniesen

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