About 25 or 30 years ago we had the high honor of performing in a concert which included Wade and Julia Mainer. It was at The San Diego Folk Festival on the big stage in a night devoted to country music which included, among others, Patsy Montana and Ray and Ina Patterson. Wade did some of his trick banjo playing which you can see at the end of the second link that Desert Dancer posted above and it brought the house down.

It was one of our first experiences in front of a big audience of more than a thousand. Jerry was singing a verse solo and he forgot the words but he deftly made some up that fit the rhythm and we managed to carry it off. When we got off stage, Wade Mainer approached us and said that we had done a verse to that song that he had never heard before. Jerry replied that we did a verse that we had never heard before, either.

At the time, we thought Wade was really old and were amazed that he was still performing. Now we are about the same age as he was then and it doesn't seem so old!

Bev and Jerry