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Finding the right key at Mon Hills Records

There’s music in the mountains of Morgantown. Some students are playing it. Some are writing it. Some are recording it. Some are promoting it.

Everybody’s humming it — the song of a small but mighty record label called Mon Hills, an independent, student-run operation at the West Virginia University School of Music.

It’s a song that sounds very different depending on who’s bringing it to life.

For Gwyn Parow, a student in the Music Business and Industry program at the College of Creative Arts and Media, it starts soft and wistful, but it doesn’t take long before it’s building to crescendo.

For Xander Plute, also a music business and industry major, it’s a song full of playfulness, and one best heard live.

Read more about Parow and Plute.