by Christine | Aug 4, 2018 | Welcome Column
What made 1967 such a remarkable year? Many of us thought the Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s being released in the summer of 1967 changed music forever. Some folks point to the Summer of Love in the Haight with the rich melodic sounds of San Francisco rock groups wafting over...
by Christine | Oct 22, 2010 | Welcome Column
While many of us are still catching our breath from the recent IBMA convention in Nashville, I want to let CBA folks know about another professional music conference that’s happening this weekend in Santa Clara. It’s the Folk Alliance Regional West Conference, which...
by Christine | Dec 15, 2015 | Welcome Column
Don’t you know any songs without a bunch minor chords? How about some traditional bluegrass we all know? Try to avoid the “jambusters” this time. Is there really a transition from one style of music to another? While it is true that most of us who began our music...
by Christine | Aug 20, 2018 | Welcome Column
In the early 1960s the folk music revival in the UK was gathering pace. As a college student at the time I really wasn’t sure what folk music was. We had sung so-called folk songs at school, and elderly, usually rural, people were being ‘discovered’ singing old...
by Christine | Sep 17, 2015 | Welcome Column
Last week I attended a workshop on leadership, courtesy of my employer. It’s always interesting spending a day soaking up knowledge from a room of over 100 library-types. Of all the things I learned that day, the thing that stuck with me the most happened in the last...
