by Christine | May 23, 2013 | Welcome Column
A lot of you long-time CBA members may remember the Festival checklist article that I used to write for the Breakdown every year. I forgot to remind our editor Mark Varner to rerun that article in the Breakdown, so I thought I would take this opportunity to remind you...
by Christine | Aug 28, 2019 | Welcome Column
For working bands, getting festival gigs means a lot. For a lot of bands, most of their regular performances are multi-hour gigs in pubs or bars, where the clientele may be indifferent, or largely absent, playing a room with often horrible acoustics and a club-quality...
by Christine | Jul 27, 2017 | Welcome Column
Daily Grist–One must remember that the boiling water that makes the egg hard, also softens the potato. It is not your situation life that determines how you handle life’s trials and tribulations. It is your inner strength, resolve, and determination...
by Christine | May 3, 2017 | Welcome Column
I know a lot of folks make it a point to purchase a T-shirt from every bluegrass festival they go to, and some of you out there have museum-worthy collections from years and years of bluegrass festivals. I slowed down on my acquisition of T-shirts, because of several...
by Christine | May 11, 2019 | Welcome Column
World Fiddle Day“Fire on the mountain, run boy run, cause the devil went down to Georgia!”“You ain’t gonna bring that devil’s box in this here church!”“Now you people stop moving your feet to that fiddle music, it just ain’t right!”“Fiddle and a bow, and the firelight...
