by Christine | May 21, 2018 | Welcome Column
I was reunited with a wonderful old friend at the Spring Campout in Turlock last month, the first Bluegrass instrument I ever bought. It was such a pleasure to once again hold in my hands and play the very instrument I had learned to play Bluegrass music on. My old...
by Christine | Jun 20, 2013 | Welcome Column
Well I guess Marcos, Jeanie, JD and Allan got together and unofficially declared June to be train theme month for the welcome column. I have always loved trains so here’s my obligatory train column. Sort of a Hooked on Trains column that I know few will read...
by Christine | Jan 31, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Ted Lehmann, long a CBA Welcome column writer who’s now scribbling for No Depression, wrote this piece just under ten years ago. We thought it’d be illuminating to look at Ted’s reporting and predictions of the Women’s...
by Christine | Dec 13, 2014 | Welcome Column
If you have learned, have been learning, or are just starting to learn to play the fiddle, you know that it is a difficult instrument to conquer. It has to be said that a person really never learns all there is to know on the fiddle, because like all musical...
by Christine | Aug 28, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, My kids are back in school today. Sigh. Sure is nice having them around during the summertime, but the world keeps turning. Late last week we had the Schwartz kids, Max and Nate, over to play music and have fun for a couple of days. Their band, with...
