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Notes for Mike SEEGER
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) - Mike Seeger, a musician who helped revive traditional American folk music, has died at age 75.
Seeger's wife, Alexia Smith, said Monday that Seeger died of cancer Friday night at their home in Lexington.
Seeger was born in New York City and raised near Washington, D.C., in a musical family. 2 of his siblinges became important figures in the folk music revival movement in the 1950s and 1960s: his half brother, Pete, and sister Peggy.
Mike Seeger associated with traditional musicians such as Maybelle Carter and Dock Boggs.
He sang and played a number of instruments, including banjo, fiddle and guitar, and helped form the traditional music group The New Lost City Ramblers in 1958. Seeger recorded more than 40 albums, both solo and with others.
He received six Grammy Award nominations.
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