by Christine | Feb 22, 2011 | Welcome Column
Well, it’s not really from me, it’s from our friend Henry Zuniga. Let me explain. The past several days I’ve been working in my shop building ridiculously huge numbers of picture frames. Many are for my wife’s watercolors, (portraits of the likes of Dale Ann Bradley,...
by Christine | Oct 19, 2008 | Welcome Column
Big Sur is beautiful already as is, but with a bluegrass festival it is even more amazing than usual. This campground wasn’t that big but every part of the campground was stunning. But enough about the campground let’s talk about the music. This festival had...
by Christine | Apr 12, 2011 | Welcome Column
The discussion rages on. Should what we call “bluegrass” music fit into a small and narrowly restricted definition created in 1946 when Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs stepped on the stage of the Grand Ol’ Opry as members of Bill Monroe’s band? Or should we...
by Christine | Dec 9, 2014 | Welcome Column
For about a dozen or so years my wife Irene and I have spent a goodly portion of our lives listening almost exclusively to bluegrass music, that grand amalgam of old English folk music, gospel, jazz, western swing, and, yes, pop that emerged from Bill Monroe’s...
by Christine | Jan 19, 2020 | Welcome Column
Act One Scene One Recap: enter stage right a confident, maybe arrogant individual, in business attire, wearing a Stetson, polished boots, gently strumming a mandolin. He looks out on the audience and says in a strident voice “fake instruments should be banned; dobros...
