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This singer and pianist earned the title "West Virginia's First Lady of Gospel Music."
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Which TV show did this Moundsville native NOT write the theme song for?
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The blind musician Ed Haley was best known for playing what instrument?
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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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This musician won the banjo contest at the West Virginia State Folk Festival at age 67 in 1975.
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Lincoln County's Elaine Purkey wrote this labor anthem.
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Keyser native Jack Rollins did NOT co-write which of these songs?
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Giving its first concert in 1929, this is the longest-running orchestra in West Virginia.
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This Mingo Countian was the first West Virginian to be honored with a National Heritage Fellowship.
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This native of Gary is known as the nation's dean of Black sacred music.
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