by Christine | Aug 3, 2017 | Welcome Column
August is looking up for me. I’ve got three gigs this month and two of them are pretty dang good. My sorta’ new bluegrass band Short Cross Ties is opening the GOF on the First Stage on Friday August 11 at noon and happy to be doing so. Getting there early and playing...
by Christine | Aug 7, 2017 | Welcome Column
Camps, Festival, Concerts Campouts, ParadesHow do we do it? Our relatively small (2800 member) organization has produced multiple events attended by thousands in the last month. We do it by the direction of our annually elected Board of Directors, the work of our...
by Christine | Aug 1, 2016 | Welcome Column
I am so grateful to the Board of Directors of the California Bluegrass Association and to Rick Cornish and Tim Edes for presenting me with an Honorary Lifetime Membership this year. I have spent an enormous amount of time, energy and love working with the...
by Christine | Aug 5, 2019 | Welcome Column
We have had couple of weeks to rest and reflect on an amazing 44th Annual CBA Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival. Every year’s festival is special and we need photos to remember each event. We had some last minute cancellations of photographers and Alan Bond and Patrick...
by Christine | Aug 9, 2011 | Welcome Column
Summer is in full swing and there are lots of opportunities for the younger generation to get together at festivals, music camps, campouts, concerts (venue and house). I notice that many of the young pickers I know expand musically during festival season when they...
by Christine | Dec 4, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: A few days ago, on one of our fifth-week-days-of-the-month, i.e., an unassigned Welcome day, we ran a piece by Brooks Judd about his Aunt Frances; it was subtitled “Part One.” Well we’ve had some requests for...
