by Christine | Dec 7, 2016 | Welcome Column
Musicians of all stripes are gearheads at heart. The search for the perfect instrument never ends – an instrument with the right feel, the right tone, the best playability and the best story. It’s always out there somewhere. We fill up our spare rooms with...
by Christine | Jan 22, 2010 | Welcome Column
My first paying gig was at the opening of a new McDonald’s restaurant in Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1972. With hardly any professional performing experience outside of singing solos in high school and church choirs and having never attended a bluegrass festival at...
by Christine | Mar 18, 2011 | Welcome Column
Howdy, What the heck is a dulcimer? I get that question all the time. A dulcimer is an easy instrument to play. It’s a four string American Appalachian instrument tuned an octave and a fifth or in unison and sits on your lap and you strum it. It often has an hour...
by Christine | Feb 7, 2019 | Welcome Column
The three most common words spoken at jams or at least the semi-amateur and other jams I’m in are: what’s the key? I started thinking about this about a month ago and as you will probably surmise, that can be potentially dangerous. Now you are warned. Keep your...
by Christine | Oct 5, 2011 | Welcome Column
I have never understood the notion of giving inanimate objects a “name”. Animals, sure, even plants, but what about things that really are just things? Your pets seem to understand the names you give them, at least the mammalian ones. I’ve never seen a snake raise its...
