by Christine | Apr 12, 2018 | Welcome Column
The Carquinez Valley Boys was my very first band. It happened in the little town of Crockett, where the mighty Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers join at the Carquinez Strait to flow into San Francisco Bay.When I was a youngster, Interstate 80 was just a gleam in some...
by Christine | Jul 12, 2018 | Welcome Column
The Carquinez Valley Boys was my very first band. It happened in the little town of Crockett, where the mighty Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers join at the Carquinez Strait to flow into San Francisco Bay.When I was a youngster, Interstate 80 was just a gleam in some...
by Christine | Oct 23, 2018 | Welcome Column
FOURTH PLACE IS NOT REALLY LIKE KISSING YOUR SISTER!Moving the Finish LineWinning isn’t everythingsaid one who’d never won.I’ll get me up and get on thereas soon as sleep is done.I’ll show you what I’m made offor you to judge yourself.Blue...
by Christine | Apr 8, 2019 | Welcome Column
Frank Solivan has been a mainstay in Bluegrass for most of the twenty first century, and a lot of that can be attributed to his desire for new achievements and sounds. After a satisfying career working for Country Current, Solivan’s band Dirty Kitchen has been through...
by Christine | Aug 10, 2012 | Welcome Column
I was thinking about kids on bluegrass, watching Frank Solivan picking his banjo in the semi dark, down at what used to be called Hobbs Grove, and now is known as the Kings river bluegrass festival. The festival hadn’t started, and Frank was taking one of his few...
