Apply Yourself

THE DAILY GRIST…”Apply yourself both now and in the next life.  Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”-Plato app – noun; an application; a typically small, specialized program...

April 2014 President’s Message

We kick off the spring season with an event in Cloverdale that Board Member Mark Hogan is involved with as part of his Sonoma County Area Activities position. This is year number 39 for the Cloverdale Fiddle Festival but the first to be held April 5th. We can kick off...

April 2016 President’s Message

I am late again getting my April President’s Message to editor Mark Varner and am going to insert instead a review I wrote about our first ever  CBA Youth Program fundraising concert held February 26th  in Alameda CA.  We made a couple hundred dollars...

April 2018 President’s Message

February was a big month with many musical options for California bluegrassers.  Volume Five appeared at the CBA produced Shingle Springs and a Night at the Grange concerts.  Many CBAers make the trek to Lake Havasu in Arizona for the big festival Larry and...

April President’s Message

The Spring Campout is this month in Turlock! The CBA hosts three campouts each year: the Spring Campout, the Fall Campout (the Annual Membership Meeting) and the Old Time Cam- pout. If you have never attended a campout this might be the year to attend.Several years...