by Christine | Nov 27, 2015 | Welcome Column
One of the things I have become used to about living where I live is that as soon as people discover you live on an Island in the Caribbean they instantly assume your life must be perfect. I’m not sure why, because the opposite didn’t happen. When I lived in the...
by Christine | Nov 23, 2010 | Welcome Column
As I write my Welcome column we’re in the midst of what they call up here in the mountains a ‘winter storm watch’. Really, there’s not much to see….endless rain, tree-bending wind and, in my case, three dogs with cabin fever. It’s only November and they’ve already got...
by Christine | Nov 27, 2017 | Welcome Column
We recently said farewell to our CBA Chairperson of the Board, Tim Edes, and that’s had me thinking a lot about him. During my four-plus decades in bluegrass, I never made a better friend than Tim. Here’s a story I’ve told many times about my pal and...
by Christine | Oct 24, 2009 | Welcome Column
In my late twenties I stumbled, literally by accident, onto bluegrass music, when, from the instant I heard Jake Quisennberry and the Lost Ramblers sing a straight-ahead, hard-driving version of ‘Little Maggie’ at a bluegrass festival my pal John Bunch and I...
by Christine | Jul 15, 2004 | Welcome Column
Saturday morning at Hollister’s Good Old Fashioned Festival I had the great fortune of wandering by the camper of Tim and Sue Edes just as they were sitting down to breakfast….and the even greater fortune of being told Tim’d cooked too much. Over eggs easy-over, fried...
