by Christine | May 27, 2020 | Welcome Column
This is a throwback column from a few years ago, but the current events make it poignant..Bluegrass and baseball are inextricably linked. It’s a fact. Bill Monroe’s band used to challenge the local baseball teams in the towns they came through, and by all...
by Christine | Aug 9, 2020 | Welcome Column
We all have our role models. My bluegrass skills pale in comparison to some friends I am fortunate enough to have and for the most part they generously encourage my efforts to be a better musician. I wish I had been lucky enough, talented enough and dedicated enough...
by Christine | May 9, 2018 | Welcome Column
Last week, I wrote about how improvised music became popular music, through a combination of factors – including its visceral appeal, and the emergence of mass media. I want to discuss the appeal a little more, by broadening that argument to include vernacular...
by Christine | Jul 6, 2017 | Welcome Column
It’s summer gol’ dang it and I couldn’t be happier about it. It is still light out at 9:00 and I’ll gladly pay the loss of an hours sleep in early March for this, regardless of what the health experts say. Any politico that suggests messing...
by Christine | Jul 2, 2020 | Welcome Column
Another month and I’m still hanging in there, still reasonable and mostly sane. There is something to be said about maintaining both of those conditions. How about all you out there in the universe? I hope you’re at least as reasonably sane or maybe even better. Among...
