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West Virginia Music Hall of Fame composer and arranger Robert Drasnin was born in this city.
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"John Hardy" is a famous folk song about a hanging in what coalfield city.
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This band is largely credited with popularizing bluegrass music in both Boston and Japan.
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This person was NOT an inaugural inductee into the West Virginia Hall of Fame in 2007.
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What's the nickname of the West Virginia University marching band?
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This Summers County songwriter recorded one of the earliest known songs about the Monongah Mine Disaster.
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On May 1, 1940, the city of Wheeling hosted a special day honoring this opera singer, who was born there.
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Giving its first concert in 1929, this is the longest-running orchestra in West Virginia.
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Which country singer from Bluefield had a hit with "Lovin' On Back Streets" in the 1970s?
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She was the first solo female country artist to have a number one hit for eight weeks straight, a record not broken for 50 years.
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