by Christine | Jan 8, 2014 | Welcome Column
1858 – Area settled, and named (modestly) by Colonel Thomas Baker, who allowed weary settlers to rest in his fields. 1873 – Bakersfield incorporated as a city. 1874 – JD Rhynes born on the future site of the Crystal Palace 1925 – Rose Maddox born – not in Bakersfield...
by Christine | Oct 23, 2017 | Welcome Column
For well over forty years now, men, women and children have gathered together in various spots around Northern California for a few days during the third week in October to sing and play and dance to the music of Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Skruggs and the...
by Christine | Oct 29, 2008 | Welcome Column
I wrote a column a while back called ?The Little Things?. It was about the things that can make certain venues more fun to play than others, if a whole lot of other factors are equal. I spoke of free meals and drinks for the band, a subject on which (as anyone who...
by Christine | Aug 11, 2016 | Welcome Column
I’m hoping for a full house Friday night, Sept. 2, when the Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley puts on a special benefit show for banjoist Bill Evans and his wife.Kathy Evans, a long-time kindergarten teacher in the Albany schools, has been having a...
by Christine | Nov 20, 2013 | Welcome Column
Author’s apology – I just flew in from New Orleans (boy are my arms tired!) and didn’t have a chance to write a new column for today – this is a reprise.. Some notable wit said that 90% of life is just showing up. That may be true, but a good...
