August Message from Darby

We have had couple of weeks to rest and reflect on an amazing 44th Annual CBA Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival. Every year’s festival is special and we need photos to remember each event. We had some last minute cancellations of photographers and Alan Bond and Patrick...

August President’s Message

Summer is in full swing and there are lots of opportunities for the younger generation to get together at festivals, music camps, campouts, concerts (venue and house). I notice that many of the young pickers I know expand musically during festival season when they...

Auntie Frances, Part Two

(Editor’s Note:  A few days ago, on one of our fifth-week-days-of-the-month, i.e., an unassigned Welcome day, we ran a piece by Brooks Judd about his Aunt Frances;  it was subtitled “Part One.”  Well we’ve had some requests for...

Australian Pioneer Remembered

Last Sunday, in Melbourne, capital city of the state of Victoria, I attended at a superb bluegrass concert. Musicians, many of whom had been playing bluegrass for decades, came from all over Australia to share good music and reminisce about the life, music and...