by Christine | Sep 18, 2007 | Welcome Column
As I write this article, I am preparing to head off to the Bluegrassin’ in the Foothills Festival in Plymouth. I can’t wait to get there! By the time you read this article, that festival will be over, we’ll be reflecting on another incredible festival, and once again,...
by Christine | Mar 30, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–Seven years ago this is how Dave Williams felt about playing in a band.)As I have mentioned a couple of hundred times this past year our band has been together for about seven years. There are five of us and we have been doing it faithfully...
by Christine | Jul 25, 2012 | Welcome Column
My dad got me started on the banjo. It took about 30 years. A standard-issue surly teen, I’d taken up the guitar to be Jimmy Page but I’d ended up more Jimmy Driftwood. I’d memorized all the folkie records my folks had lying around. But listening to the man’s records...
by Christine | Oct 12, 2012 | Welcome Column
My friend Jonathon Bluemel is a really fine banjo player. I’m always looking for excuses to play in a band with him because frankly, I just like the way he does what he does. Now I know all the banjo jokes and can recite them with great satisfaction, and I know all...
by Christine | Sep 4, 2012 | Welcome Column
We never thought it would get here, and perhaps even now it hasn’t, but the last two days in Central Victoria, South-eastern Australia, have been warmer and sunnier with that light, deft touch of breeze, than for the past four months of what was, for us, a cold and...
