by Christine | Oct 12, 2016 | Welcome Column
[blast from the past]If only I was born earlier. I could have seen Bill Monroe in his prime, Jim and Jesse with their natural hair color, and Jimmy Martin as a spry, brash young man. I could have been involved in the Bay Area bluegrass scene back when it was a...
by Christine | Jul 26, 2012 | Welcome Column
If only I was born earlier. I could have seen Bill Monroe in his prime, Jim and Jesse with their natural hair color, and Jimmy Martin as a spry, brash young man. I could have been involved in the Bay Area bluegrass scene back when it was a well-kept secret, and hung...
by Christine | Mar 9, 2017 | Welcome Column
At the the Turlock campout we ended up right next to Jim Genaw and Mikki Feeney. Besides a lot of excellent music, we enjoyed just hanging out at their camp, fondly remembering the now-defunct festival at the Shasta County Fairgrounds in Anderson where we met about 11...
by Christine | Jul 19, 2014 | Welcome Column
At this very moment, I’m in my “Bluegrasser-On-the-Road” mode, working at the Northwest String Summit festival, way out in the deep, deep, un-wi-fi-i-fied woods of Hornings Hideout in North Plains, Oregon. The lineup feels like the holy grail of...
by Christine | Oct 27, 2011 | Welcome Column
Most of the time when we have a dream, we have trouble remembering the whole dream. Usually, it takes somethang to trigger part of the dream, and then, slowly we remember all of it. A couple of years ago, I woke up one morning, and I remembered this whole dream jes as...
