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The Mountain Music Trail is open and ready for visitors. The Mountain Music Trail consists of venues throughout five counties in eastern West Virginia that came together to promote the traditional music, dance and folkways of the Allegheny Mountain region. The trail follows along scenic Route 219 through Tucker, Randolph, Pocahontas, Greenbrier and Monroe counties.
It’s now the subject of a special television program being featured on WVPB. Beth Vorhees talked with West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s VasiliaScouras who helped produce the short video pieces highlighting the various stops on The Mountain Music Trail.
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Vasalia Scouras sits in the Pocahontas County Opera House, a stop on The Mountain Music Trail.
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