by Christine | Sep 10, 2015 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST… “These kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the...
by Christine | Jul 21, 2013 | Welcome Column
My word, we have another CBA Music Camp in the bag and another Father’s Day Festival all wrapped up. I’m not sure that any of us have had the time yet to sit back and breath a sigh of relief and feel like it is over. Our new music camp directors, Peter Langston and...
by Christine | Nov 14, 2014 | Welcome Column
As sort of a big tent guy in bluegrass circles, I appreciate the variety of music I get a chance to play with the people that hang around this fine organization. The charter of the California bluegrass association says that they were formed for the preservation of old...
by Christine | Feb 24, 2017 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where it would definitely be snowing right now if there was a single cloud in the sky. I’m going to get right to it here. A couple of days ago I received an email from a guy called Bill Foss who told me about a...
by Christine | Feb 12, 2013 | Welcome Column
Recently I sat down with the leader of a rising band that’s struggling to break out into the light of headliner and A-list band. He complained in a bewildered, and perhaps embittered, voice that there were too few festivals and too many bands crowding a field...
