Topic: Masonic musical artists
I was doing some research and found a list of famous masonic musicians....interesting. You pretty much always hear about government & presidential figures being masons, but here are some that apply to music.
Johann Christian Bach
Irving Berlin - Munn Lodge No.190 New York City, NY
Ludwig van Beethoven
George M. Cohen
Gilbert & Sullivan
W.C. Handy
Franz Haydn
Jerome Kern
Franz Liszt
Wolfgang Mozart
Antoine Joseph Sax, invented the Saxophone (1846)
Hans Schuler
Jean Julius Sibelius
John Phillip Sousa
Eddy Arnold
Roy Acuff
Rex Allen
Gene Autry - Catoosa Lodge No. 185, Catoosa, Oklahoma: 1927
Roy Clark
Jim Davis
Ferlin Husky
Burl Ives
Eddy Peabody
Tex Ritter
Jimmy Rodgers
Roy Rogers - Hollywood Lodge No. 355, Hollywood. 1946
Mel Tillis
Hank Thompson
William "Count" Basie - Wisdom Lodge No. 102, Chicago
Eubie Blake
Nat King Cole - Waller Lodge No.49, Los Angeles, CA Prince Hall
Duke Ellington
Lionel Hampton
Al Jolson
Tony Martin
Oscar Peterson
Paul Whiteman
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