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This band is largely credited with popularizing bluegrass music in both Boston and Japan.
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WVU artist-in-residence Ellie Mannette is often considered the "father" of this instrument.
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This Webster County musician won the fiddle contest at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
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West Virginia Hall of Fame member Butch Miles was a master of what instrument?
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This Summers County songwriter recorded one of the earliest known songs about the Monongah Mine Disaster.
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Monroe County's Henry Reed was most closely associated with this instrument.
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Nat Reese was known for his unique stylings of what kind of music?
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Giving its first concert in 1929, this is the longest-running orchestra in West Virginia.
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This Braxton County fiddler was the first West Virginian to be named a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow.
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Which country singer from Bluefield had a hit with "Lovin' On Back Streets" in the 1970s?
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