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Marvin Gaster is the last in a line of Lee County, North Carolina, two-finger banjo pickers. The Gaster family has a long history of involvement with music and dancing, dating back to at least Marvin's great-grandfather, 'Fiddlin' John' Morris Francis Gaster (1853-1942). Raised by his great-aunt and uncle in the farm culture of the early 1900s, as an adult Gaster has been active in preserving the music of that culture. Today, Marvin G… MORE