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This singer was known as "Charleston's First Lady of Jazz."
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Curly Ray Cline played fiddle with this bluegrass band.
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South Charleston native Larry Combs is most associated with this instrument.
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This Charleston native received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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Which TV show did this Moundsville native NOT write the theme song for?
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Folklorist Pat Gainer founded this festival in 1950.
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West Virginia Hall of Fame member Butch Miles was a master of what instrument?
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These brothers' Clay County festival became a pattern for the Vandalia Gathering and other old-time music festivals.
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Bluefield's Maceo Pinkard co-wrote this classic song.
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What country music singer was born Lois LaVerne Williamson?
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