by Christine | Feb 8, 2012 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass music sure has a lot of great songs (I’m including “songs” and “tunes”). Over the years, many have emerged as popular favorites, some to a degree that they have fallen out of favor. My personal favorite example is “Rocky Top”. From the time I first started...
by Christine | Aug 17, 2014 | Welcome Column
I came across an interesting read this week entitled “Why the Summer Festival Bubble is About to Burst”. You can find this rather long discussion on the economics of festivals at http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/too-many-summer-music-festivals. Now granted, the...
by Christine | Jun 22, 2020 | Welcome Column
The setting is the Midsummer Festival, at the fairgrounds of Nevada County in Grass Valley, California. I believe August of 1992. It may have been 1991 or 1993, but after a stroke and heart attack in years past, not to mention having been diagnosed with...
by Christine | Jul 25, 2019 | Welcome Column
Daily Grist: The more I try to understand women, the more I love my old truck.Here is a story that was conveyed to me by my friend Herb Pederson about 10 or 15 years ago. It had to do with the perils of the road musician’s ability to remember where he is at and...
by Christine | Mar 7, 2012 | Welcome Column
Airplanes fly on an amazingly simple principle – when air flows over the wing, it creates lift. It’s an astonishing thing. The engine that powered the Wright Brothers’ plane had only 25 horsepower, but it got that homemade vehicle going fast enough...
by Christine | Sep 29, 2010 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass is a folk music all right, but don’t tell a folkie that. And you’d best not try plying folk music at a bluegrass jam. Last night, I played at a jam session that featured yet another folk music: blues. A week later, the same venue will host a jam with another...
