Wade Mainer Tribute & Biography Release

Free Admission

Old-time music fans, this is an evening you don't want to miss! Music scholar and Washington radio personality Dick Spottswood is coming to Chapel Hill to talk about his new book, Banjo on the Mountain – Wade Mainer’s First Hundred Years, which tells the story of the man who made a career in country music playing the banjo a few years before Bill Monroe's first record became a hit.

A musical tribute to Wade Mainer will feature Big Medicine (Jim Collier, Bob Head, Kenny Jackson, Joe Newberry); The Happy Valley Pals (Gail Gillespie and Margaret Martin, Dwight Rogers and Wayne Martin); The Lonesome Prairie Dogs (Steve Terrill, Molly Stouten, and Alan Teichman); Andy Cahan; and Joseph DeCosimo; along with other area musicians. The event will also include a reception, discussion and a Q&A session with Spottswood.