Gerry Milnes

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Start with Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia (2009) book, his best-known book on West Virginia traditional music

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Gerald 'Gerry' Milnes is a West Virginia folklorist, fiddler, filmmaker and author who served as folk arts coordinator at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins from 1988 to 2013, documenting more than 2,000 hours of Appalachian field recordings. He founded the West Virginia Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and wrote 'Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia.' In 2026 he received the NEA Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellowship, the nation's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts

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