As a young man, W. C. Handy played cornet in brass bands in Evansville, Illinois, and Henderson, Kentucky, from 1893-96 and toured internationally with Mahara's Minstrels during the late 1890s.
As a young man, W. C. Handy played cornet in brass bands in Evansville, Illinois, and Henderson, Kentucky, from 1893-96 and toured internationally with Mahara's Minstrels during the late 1890s.
