Monthly Message from Our President…October, 2019

Greetings all. This will be my last President’s Message. I retire at the October Annual Membership Meeting and someone else will be selected by the Board to become President.I have been asked recently what exactly a CBA President does. The By-Laws define the role as...

Monthly President’s Message From Darby Brandli

This is going to be a great year for California bluegrassers and for bluegrass in general! One week into the New Year (with a big bluegrass bash at my house on New Year’s Eve), scores of CBAers descended on Bakersfield for the 4th Annual Great 48 and dozens of the...

More about the 2013 FDF bands

Dear friends, Hope everyone had a great time in Bakersfield at the CBA’s hugely successful Great 48! Welcome back to the “real” world, where a hot jam is not just a hallway away. Last time I wrote the 1st Monday Welcome column I was outlining and explaining the...

More adventures of my buddy Ray Park

I have two large portrait size photographs of two of my best friends Vern Williams and Ray Park, hanging in my living room. I look at them every morning noon and night. I love looking at these portrait size photographs that my good friend Tom Tworek took of them the...

More memories of Rose

Last month I told you folks about the night my lips got polio fromdrinking too much Guinness Stout when the Vern Williams band wasplaying a gig with Rose Maddox at Raspberries nightclub in AngelsCamp California. For the last couple of days I have been dredging...