by Christine | Feb 9, 2017 | Welcome Column
This getting old thing is a royal pain in the butt, I’m here to tell you. Actually at the moment it’s a royal pain in the back, as a coughing fit I had some weeks ago when I was deep into a winter cold seems to have strained a muscle back there.And I’ve got a...
by Christine | Oct 18, 2019 | Welcome Column
Yes, it’s just October, and it seems like the 2019 Father’s Day Festival in Grass Valley is still right there in the rearview mirror, but in fact, lots of folks are busily at work putting together a great experience for the 2020 festival week. CBA Summer Music...
by Christine | Apr 25, 2011 | Welcome Column
The debate rages on within the CBA – should the focus of the organization be on preserving the most traditional forms of bluegrass, gospel, and old-time music, or should a wider range of styles be included in the mix? Is our mission to stubbornly insist on Stanley...
by Christine | Mar 21, 2016 | Welcome Column
Suppose a close longtime friend, whom you have not seen for ten years, calls you up on the telephone. You pick up the phone and your friend starts talking without saying their name. It wouldn’t take you very much time to realize whose voice it was on the other side of...
by Christine | Feb 23, 2012 | Welcome Column
Every year around the last of Feb., or the first of March I always remember two of the closest, and bestest friends I’ll ever have in my life. It was about this time of the year that I lost boh of them. The first one to enter into my life was 3 years old when we...
