Collaborations

Playing music with other people – whether you’re jamming or “officially” performing – it’s a collaboration that creates a whole, greater than the sum of its parts. The most stark example of this is in vocal harmonies. Have you noticed that when a harmony...

College

As some of you guys are aware, I am in my senior year in high school, which means that I have been spending much of the past six months deciding where I will go to college. Late last year was spent researching and deciding which colleges I should apply too along with...

College and Sports

(Editor’s Note: Here’s a column from Marty written in 2014. There have been very few Welcome column writers who have so consistently and for so many years supplied this spot with informative, entertaining and utterly accessible essays. Thanks, Marty....

Colusa Found

It’s going to be a short column today folks. I drove up to Colusa yesterday for the CBA FAll Campout and woke up early to write a short posting. This is my first campout, believe it or not and I wasn’t quite sure what we would discover. Yeah I get to use “we” as in me...

Come on up/down/over!

What a glorious bluegrass season 2019 has been. As we have for going on fifty years, the big CBA family is headed to Lodi this week to celebrate a great ending and a terrific beginning of non-stop bluegrass. Come for the music, the friends, the food and everything in...