by Christine | Jun 21, 2014 | Welcome Column
It was the week before the California Bluegrass Association Father’s Day Festival in June, and I experienced a cosmic nudge. It was a nudge telling me that things just might not go as smoothly as I had planned. I had been bucking some logs at the old home place, and...
by Christine | Aug 15, 2019 | Welcome Column
The Internet has become a wonderful source of bluegrass and old-time music history. I have spent many fascinating hours on YouTube watching and listening to musical performances captured on film and audio recordings over the best part of a century. One of the things...
by Christine | Oct 24, 2011 | Welcome Column
The bluegrass/baseball connection goes back to Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys fielding a team as a pre-show promotion. Baseball is referenced in bluegrass songs like Jimmy Martin’s “Home Run Man” and the Gibson Brothers’ “Iron and Diamonds.” Our own CBA message board...
by Christine | Nov 21, 2016 | Welcome Column
I have a special ghost writer for my column today, my friend John Baldry from jolly old England. Geoff Sergeant said yesterday that he grew up in the American South (as I did too) yet learned how to play bluegrass in California. Well I can testify that I learned how...
by Christine | Mar 20, 2014 | Welcome Column
I recently had the privilege of presenting my documentary “Making History with Pioneers of Bluegrass” at the Bluegrass on Broadway Film Festival in Redwood City, CA. I met a lot of wonderful people at this event but filmmaker Rick Bowman and his film “Herschel...
