Jesse Milnes

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Jesse Milnes is a West Virginia old-time fiddler and guitarist from Elkins who grew up learning from masters such as Melvin Wine and Ernie Carpenter and from his father, folklorist Gerry Milnes. He has won fiddle contests including the WV State Folk Festival and the Ed Haley Fiddle Contest, played and wrote songs for the country band the Sweetback Sisters, and regularly plays for square dances across the state. He performs in a duo with Emily Miller and leads the honky-tonk Jesse Milnes Band

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