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Listen for new open and closing theme music on West Virginia Morning this week.
Local composer Matthew Jackfert, a part time board announcer at West Virginia Public Radio, was commissioned to write a new theme for the weekday news program.
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Listen to the new theme here.
Many thanks to the talented musicians who performed this stunning new work.
Joseph Cevallos -- Violin, Pennywhistle
Alasha Al-Qudwah -- Viola
Jim Lange (W.Va. Public Radio classical music host) -- Guitar
John Query -- Djembe (hand drum), triangle, suspended cymbal, shakers
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This week, a new memoir explores the struggle to stay in Appalachia and the struggle to leave. Also, an exhibit in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, documents the contributions of the Catawba Nation to the American Revolutionary War. And, grab some sunscreen as we make a visit to the Nelsonville Music Festival in Ohio.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia's only national park has been named to a prestigious list of the most beautiful places in America.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWriter Emilee Hackney has a complicated relationship with where she grew up. She loved her friends, family, the swimming holes and wild places in Tazewell County, Virginia, but she felt stifled. Her new memoir, All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir, explores this tension and what happened when she did leave.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA recent national story identified West Virginia’s Ascend program as being highly successful, even though the numbers are relatively small.
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