From the Love of Christmas

(Editor’s Note: When I posted Robin’s Welcome yesterday I goofed it up and left 3/4 of it off. Half a day went by before I was alerted to the problem, so I decided that after it was fixed the Welcome would stay up another day. Really, it deserved to...

From the Source to Your Ears

As I have mentioned in my “Hooked on Bluegrass” story from way back, one of the things that attracted me to this music is the portability and organic aspect – it can be played anywhere, anytime, with nothing but instruments and voices. It is wonderful for people...

Funny what a little self-loathing can do

It would just be sheer common sense for an organization such as the CBA, one that?s activity-based, one that has a legion of different volunteers doing different things at different times, to construct a ?master calendar? with reminders to do all of the things that...

Gadfly

Twenty years ago, I lived in western Maryland. I really liked living there. Part of the fun was because there was a lot of good music in the D.C./Northern Virginia area. By that time in my life I had sort of drifted away from the music of my Carolina childhood....