by Christine | Dec 26, 2015 | Welcome Column
As a new monthly Welcome Columnist, I ask you to allow me to introduce to you who I am, through a theory realized early on in my life. I am a woman who spent her youth being raised in rural America: Talent Oregon. My parents–salt of the earth:...
by Christine | May 8, 2019 | Welcome Column
“Nobody goes there – it’s too crowded!” said Yogi Berra (probably). For a few months, I have been hosting a bluegrass jam session at Bonehead’s BBQ in Lafayette. The first few months it was a raucous, rollicking event, with maybe 10 pickers. I’m sure the...
by Christine | Dec 29, 2019 | Welcome Column
Ring out the False, Ring in the True– Alfred Lord Tennyson// For 12 years I had taken the same route to a facility for my Mother, 3 days a week—sometimes four–where my Mother would get her dialysis. And in those days, we were always slotted for the same...
by Christine | Jul 28, 2020 | Welcome Column
My sincere thanks to John Hettinger, who always manages to keep our bluegrass community current on happenings in the greater Sacramento area. Unfortunately, the piece I’m posting today, written by John, comes as a blow to all who knew our friend...
by Christine | Jan 14, 2016 | Welcome Column
Some people say it’s better to be lucky than good. Bill Monroe was both lucky and good. He was an amazingly creative person, an endless fount of songs and tunes, and he worked for a long time to come up with a style of music that would be his own and live...
