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Clarksburg native Phyllis Curtin is best remembered for what style of music?
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This West Virginia Music Hall of Fame member was the half-sister of Bessie Smith, known as the "Empress of the Blues."
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This fiddler was named a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow, one of the highest national awards in the arts.
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Banjo player Sylvia O'Brien was the sister of this traditional musician.
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This musician won the banjo contest at the West Virginia State Folk Festival at age 67 in 1975.
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What's the nickname of the West Virginia University marching band?
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Nat Reese was known for his unique stylings of what kind of music?
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Which one of the following songs did Boone County native Billy Edd Wheeler NOT write or cowrite?
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Which Lincoln County native cofounded the band MC-5?
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This Clarksburg native's "Simpson Creek" is considered one of the earliest environmentalist songs.
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