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NORTH CAROLINA MUSIC HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES 2016 INDUCTEES

The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in Kannapolis, N.C. has announced this year’s eight inductees! Check out this list of some of NC’s finest musicians: 

The Avett Brothers – folk rock/bluegrass/Americana, from Concord, NC.

Band of Oz – popular pioneer Beach music band, from Raleigh, NC.

Chuck Brown (deceased) – funk guitarist known as the “Godfather of Go-go,” from Gaston, NC.

Rhiannon Giddens & The Carolina Chocolate Drops – Grammy award winning old time string band, from Greensboro and Durham, NC.

Percy Heath (deceased) – jazz musician/bassist and member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, born in Wilmington, NC.

David Holt – Grammy Award winning folk musician & story teller who appears regularly on PBS television, from Asheville, NC.

Kellie Pickler – country vocalist and American Idol contestant, born in Albemarle, NC.

Ron Tyson – longtime member of the Temptations, from Monroe, NC.