August President’s Message

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...

Auntie Frances, Part Two

(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...

Australian Pioneer Remembered

Last Sunday, in Melbourne, capital city of the state of Victoria, I attended at a superb bluegrass concert. Musicians, many of whom had been playing bluegrass for decades, came from all over Australia to share good music and reminisce about the life, music and...

Autumn’s Web

“Sometimes it looks like I’m dancing, but it’s just that I walked into a spider web.”  — Demetri MartinIt was with 8 tiny toe shoes I watched the spider dance across the strings of her melodious life:  Freshly sticking, as if it was to...

Awards

Dear friends, Welcome to the CBA website. Hope your Monday is the kind of Monday the ruins the poor reputation this day has established for itself over the whole history of forever. Here we are in February and I’m looking on the bluegrass map and finding there are so...