[Heavenly] Bells
Description
Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music Performance
North Carolina banjo player Wade Mainer (1907-2011) was influential in developing the "two finger style" of banjo picking. A religious conversion in 1953 led him to renounce the music industry and the banjo. He moved to Flint Michigan to work at General Motors. In the 1960s he began playing the banjo again on gospel recordings. He retired from GM in 1973. He began tperforming with his wife, guitarist Julia Mainer and continued to release albums until 1993, at the age of 86.
Date
10/29/88
Coverage
Subject
Type
Video Music
Publisher
Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College
Identifier
AC-VT-014-020-07
Rights
This resource is provided for educational purposes Please cite all references to this item
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Collection
Citation
Mainer, Julia and Mainer, Wade, “[Heavenly] Bells,” Berea College Special Collections & Archives, accessed June 1, 2023, https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/7320.