Dedication

How important is playing your instrument to you? Ask yourself that question. Would it be more important than being able to walk? That is exactly the question Gaelynn Lea faced recently and she chose playing her violin over walking. Most of us take these two choices...

Dedication To Craft

I am often impressed by the dedication to improvement I see in bluegrass musicians. A good friend of mine, who is already one of the best banjo pickers around, just spent a week in North Carolina attending a very exclusive (invitation only) master banjo class. His...

Deeply Fried and Tie-Dyed

Our story begins with a journey, rolling north from Grass Valley on Highway 5 in a possibly, ever so slightly, overloaded Ford F-350, towing a cargo trailer laden with deep-friers, freezers, coolers, a commercial-grade cotton candy machine, tarps, canopies, vast...

Deja Vu All Over Again

Readers: Instead of boring you with an ego driven column about the wild celebration the Fog Valley Drifters receivedat the spring campout (how gauche) since it was spring warming up to summer I would resurrect a column from many years ago that brings to mind the joys...

Delayed from Friday

It appears our fearless and industrious Chairman of the Board is still suffering from the effects of the voodoo doll I jokingly stuck a few well placed pins into. If it weren’t so painful for Rick, this litany of horrors would be laughable. I feel terrible about this....