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This Charleston native received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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In 1935, this opera singer became the first West Virginian to perform at the Met in New York City.
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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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The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra is headquartered in this city.
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Which one of the following songs was NOT a hit for Raleigh County native Bill Withers?
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Logan County native Jim Foglesong was known primarily as a producer of what type of music?
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Who had a hit with the 1947 country song "Beyond the Sunset?"
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What country music singer was born Lois LaVerne Williamson?
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This fiddler from Elizabeth won the 1998 Vandalia Award.
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