Biography:Enos Canoy
Enos Canoy
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| Given name: | Enos |
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| Family name: | Canoy |
| Place of birth: | Magee, Simpson County, central Mississippi |
| Place of death: | Magee, Simpson County, central Mississippi |
| Year of birth: | 1909 |
| Year of death: | 1970 |
| Profile: | Musician |
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Biographical notes
ENOS CANOY (1909-1970). Magee, Simpson County, central Mississippi fiddler Enos Canoy learned to play the fiddle at age 12, and made his first fiddle out of a pine box. The fiddle he played at his 1939 Library of Congress field recording session, recorded by Herber Halpert, he had also decorated with hand-tooled and painted figures. Enos played in a family band, formed around 1937, with his cousin, Tim (mandolin) and Tim's wife Lola (guitar), calling themselves The Canoy Wildcats, and they were the first string band to play on Mississippi radio. Canoy and his family were also called the Enos Canoy Band.