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...
by Christine | Dec 9, 2014 | Welcome Column
For about a dozen or so years my wife Irene and I have spent a goodly portion of our lives listening almost exclusively to bluegrass music, that grand amalgam of old English folk music, gospel, jazz, western swing, and, yes, pop that emerged from Bill Monroe’s...
by Christine | Jan 19, 2020 | Welcome Column
Act One Scene One Recap: enter stage right a confident, maybe arrogant individual, in business attire, wearing a Stetson, polished boots, gently strumming a mandolin. He looks out on the audience and says in a strident voice “fake instruments should be banned; dobros...
by Christine | Nov 17, 2019 | Welcome Column
Politics run amuck. The BTBP (Big Tent Bluegrass Party) whose national logo was a medley of guitars, fiddles, mandolins, accordions, beat boxes, and didgeridoos, was attempting to out-muck out the STP (Small Tenter Party) that proudly displays a golden banjo logo with...
by Christine | Feb 3, 2011 | Welcome Column
Walking through the Nevada County Fairgrounds during the Fathers Day bluegrass festival, one couldn’t help but spot that shiny silver Airstream trailer. More often than not, there was a circle of pickers gathered outside the Airstream, but the songs coming from the...
by Christine | Jul 9, 2011 | Welcome Column
There are few musicians who have had a whole new musical genre created because of what they did while dwelling in time and space for their alloted time on this revolving sphere in the sky that we call earth. When they start off doing what they’re doing...
