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Curly Ray Cline played fiddle with this bluegrass band.
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This Raleigh County native's biggest hit was "May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose."
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This Fayette County native played guitar on several Bob Dylan albums and was music director of the TV show Hee Haw.
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These brothers' Clay County festival became a pattern for the Vandalia Gathering and other old-time music festivals.
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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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What's the nickname of the West Virginia University marching band?
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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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This banjo player was the first woman to receive the Vandalia Award, West Virginia's highest folklife honor.
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Who had a hit with the 1947 country song "Beyond the Sunset?"
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What West Virginian, playing with the Lilly Brothers, helped popularize bluegrass music in Boston?
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