by Christine | Dec 21, 2010 | Welcome Column
As the festival season winds down, new bands are formed, band members play musical hop-scotch, and fans mostly watch from the sidelines, I’ve been thinking about what makes a good festival good. During the past several months a number of people have posted or...
by Christine | Jul 20, 2016 | Welcome Column
I have written columns previously about all the things that go wrong at a gig. It was fun and cathartic to recall all the weird things that have happened in decades of playing live gigs in a bewildering variety of venues. Murphy’s Law (“Anything that can go wrong,...
by Christine | Jul 11, 2010 | Welcome Column
Had a big shindig yesterday at our house. Fed about seventy people. Exhausted today so I’ll run a story I posted here six years ago about how I like to cook a lot. I Like to cook a lot a lot. January, 2004 I enjoy cooking a lot a lot. Which is to say I enjoy cooking...
by Christine | Feb 22, 2011 | Welcome Column
Well, it’s not really from me, it’s from our friend Henry Zuniga. Let me explain. The past several days I’ve been working in my shop building ridiculously huge numbers of picture frames. Many are for my wife’s watercolors, (portraits of the likes of Dale Ann Bradley,...
by Christine | Oct 19, 2008 | Welcome Column
Big Sur is beautiful already as is, but with a bluegrass festival it is even more amazing than usual. This campground wasn’t that big but every part of the campground was stunning. But enough about the campground let’s talk about the music. This festival had...
by Christine | Apr 12, 2011 | Welcome Column
The discussion rages on. Should what we call “bluegrass” music fit into a small and narrowly restricted definition created in 1946 when Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs stepped on the stage of the Grand Ol’ Opry as members of Bill Monroe’s band? Or should we...
