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...
by Christine | Oct 2, 2012 | Welcome Column
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...
by Christine | Sep 7, 2014 | Welcome Column
Autumn Rituals: Football, Shotguns, and THE FALL CAMPOUT! (all you ever wanted to know and really wanted to ask—right here!) Sure fire signs that Fall is here: The opening of dove season. The first full Sunday of NFL games. Fishing solely with dry flies. Scrounging...
by Christine | Sep 29, 2016 | Welcome Column
“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...
by Christine | Feb 11, 2008 | Welcome Column
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...
by Christine | Nov 3, 2016 | Welcome Column
Is there an etymologist in the house? No….no not an entomologist. I don’t need to know about bugs but rather what’s bugging me (pun intended) is the origin of some musical jargon associated with my instrument, practice space and skills. Axe – woodshed – chops. Maybe...
