Top Ten Tips for Happy Bluegrassers

The California Bluegrass Association Father’s Day Festival is a breathless 53 days away and counting. Here are our top ten festival tips to keep you knee-deep in bluegrass happiness:1. Use Your SunscreenJust do it. Nobody needs a leathery, peeling neck just to...

Tour de Jam Stage 3

Here it is at 10:30 on Saturday evening before my column is due and I’m still writing. It wasn’t due to procrastination, I’ve been noodling on this for the past week, but all the same I haven’t finished it……ok…..nose to the old fretboard and see if I can make a wrap....

Tour de Jam Stage Two: The Grass Valley Jam Couloir

From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Cou·loir. Pronunciation: kül-‘wär. Function: noun. Etymology: French, literally, passage, from couler; a steep mountainside gorge. Summertime and the living is easy…….welcome to my first column for the summer of 2009…….during...

Touring in Heaven?

It was the eighties and I was touring with the International Touring Company of A Chorus Line. It was my first real foray out into the world of what is now called ‘adulting.’ I spoke no foreign languages and we were traversing 9 countries and my contract was to be for...