by Christine | Aug 6, 2012 | Welcome Column
Dear Friends, We want to congratulate everyone’s friend Snap Jackson and his significant other Erin Van Zant on the birth of their child, Milo Sebastian Borrego. This young man has been born into a world we can only wish more children could share. I have a little...
by Christine | Dec 13, 2018 | Welcome Column
The message board now and then erupts with the classic “What is Bluegrass?” question. Everyone can pretty much agree on what Traditional Bluegrass is, but as the music gets more modern, or from non-Southern Mountain sources, opinionsdiverge.And then time passes. The...
by Christine | Sep 13, 2014 | Welcome Column
Wikipedia’s definition of “Band Wagon” = “In layman’s terms the bandwagon effect refers to people doing certain things because other people are doing them, regardless of their own beliefs, which they may ignore or override. The perceived popularity of an object or...
by Christine | Dec 12, 2007 | Welcome Column
“Bah! Humbug!”, said Ebenezer Kludge as he plunked down the money for the self-tuning guitar. “I’m a busy, important musician! Surely I shouldn’t be bothered with trivialities like learning how to tune my instrument!” He took his instrument home to his chilly, dank...
by Christine | Jun 28, 2010 | Welcome Column
I remember when karate really hit the big time, back in the seventies. The cold war was in full swing and people were fascinated with secret agent stuff. Everywhere you looked, on TV or at the movies, secret agent heroes like James Bond were beating up on the bad guys...
