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Who was the first native West Virginian elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame?
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Curly Ray Cline played fiddle with this bluegrass band.
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Old-time musician Dwight Diller spent years documenting and teaching others about this musical Pocahontas County family.
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West Virginia Music Hall of Fame composer and arranger Robert Drasnin was born in this city.
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This person was NOT an inaugural inductee into the West Virginia Hall of Fame in 2007.
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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 Tucker County native was known as "America's Polka King?"
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What popular country music radio program aired for 10 years on Fairmont's WMMN?
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This Mingo Countian was the first West Virginian to be honored with a National Heritage Fellowship.
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