California and Bluegrass – Perfect!

Yep, I like bluegrass music just fine. One of the things I like about bluegrass is pickin’ with friends and strangers. I have been fortunate enough to play bluegrass with friends or strangers in a lot of different places. Various states, various countries – bluegrass...

Calling Up a Bluegrass Festival

Kiwis, orange sherbet, and Earl Grey Tea, what do these have in common? When I was a couple months pregnant with my son, I had the usual malady—morning sickness. It’s the kind of icky sensation where you feel like there would be some sort of flavor, some kind of tang,...

Cameron Little, Proust, and the Sonoma Mountain Band

The CBA Welcome Column of April 19, 2014 was penned by Cameron Little, one of the great teen hopes for the future of bluegrass music in California regarding the “Word of Bluegrass” and mandolin playing. As you may remember, Cameron’s column was an interview with band...

Cameron’s uncle Ray

(EDITOR’S NOTE–We currently find that we have a couple of Welcome writer slots open.  If you think you might like to consider joining our little team of columnists, please drop me a line at rickcornish7777@hotmail.com and I can tell you all about the...