by Bert Daniel | Aug 30, 2023 | Welcome Column
Teach your children well. Their father’s hell did slowly go byFeed them on your dreams. The one they pick’s the one you’ll know by Those classic Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young lyrics remind me of the experience all parents have listening to one of...
by Bert Daniel | Aug 28, 2023 | Welcome Column
I was in no particular hurry to make the three and a half hour drive to Nevada County. It was a beautiful June Saturday morning, the second Saturday of the month, the day each year I head for nine days of bluegrass heaven, for me probably the best single day of the...
by Bert Daniel | Aug 21, 2023 | Welcome Column
People love to sing. You probably do too and I am no exception either. There’s just something about expressing your emotions through language and music that gets to people. Song is a way to preserve feelings and traditions through poetry and rhyme and it is a way to...
by Bert Daniel | Aug 9, 2023 | Welcome Column
A couple of months ago, bluegrass music lost another two of its founders. On June 23, Jesse McReynolds at the age of 93 joined his brother Jim, who had passed away from thyroid cancer at age 75. Together Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys helped create bluegrass...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 30, 2023 | Welcome Column
Free is good but in some cases you get what you pay for. As an aspirant to many instruments which I still can’t play well enough to my liking, I appreciate every opportunity to sit down with an expert and work one on one with everything that might make me a better...
