by Christine | May 9, 2018 | Welcome Column
Last week, I wrote about how improvised music became popular music, through a combination of factors – including its visceral appeal, and the emergence of mass media. I want to discuss the appeal a little more, by broadening that argument to include vernacular...
by Christine | Jul 6, 2017 | Welcome Column
It’s summer gol’ dang it and I couldn’t be happier about it. It is still light out at 9:00 and I’ll gladly pay the loss of an hours sleep in early March for this, regardless of what the health experts say. Any politico that suggests messing...
by Christine | Jul 2, 2020 | Welcome Column
Another month and I’m still hanging in there, still reasonable and mostly sane. There is something to be said about maintaining both of those conditions. How about all you out there in the universe? I hope you’re at least as reasonably sane or maybe even better. Among...
by Christine | Jan 31, 2017 | Welcome Column
We be talking bass again this month. I mean the stringed instrument not the fish. You know, the doghouse, bull fiddle, bass fiddle or just plain bass (but not base). The one where you can never find more than one in a jam or band unless the band name has a city and...
by Christine | Dec 6, 2020 | Welcome Column
We be talking bass again this month. I mean the stringed instrument not the fish. You know, the doghouse, bull fiddle, bass fiddle or just plain bass (but not base). The one where you can never find more than one in a jam or band unless the band name has a city and...
by Christine | Oct 17, 2017 | Welcome Column
Yup, that’s where we’re at and that’s where we’ll be till next Sunday. For over 40 Octobers the California Bluegrass Association has convened for several days of jamming, catching up, eating, jamming and more jamming. The Grape Festival...
