by Bert Daniel | Aug 28, 2023 | Welcome Column
I was in no particular hurry to make the three and a half hour drive to Nevada County. It was a beautiful June Saturday morning, the second Saturday of the month, the day each year I head for nine days of bluegrass heaven, for me probably the best single day of the...
by Bert Daniel | Aug 21, 2023 | Welcome Column
People love to sing. You probably do too and I am no exception either. There’s just something about expressing your emotions through language and music that gets to people. Song is a way to preserve feelings and traditions through poetry and rhyme and it is a way to...
by Bert Daniel | Aug 9, 2023 | Welcome Column
A couple of months ago, bluegrass music lost another two of its founders. On June 23, Jesse McReynolds at the age of 93 joined his brother Jim, who had passed away from thyroid cancer at age 75. Together Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys helped create bluegrass...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 30, 2023 | Welcome Column
Free is good but in some cases you get what you pay for. As an aspirant to many instruments which I still can’t play well enough to my liking, I appreciate every opportunity to sit down with an expert and work one on one with everything that might make me a better...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 27, 2023 | Welcome Column
You and me baby, we’re ice cream and liquor The first taste’s slow and the second one’s quicker Thought we’d clash, but we hardly ever bicker You and me baby, we’re ice cream and liquor (The Reckless Electric) I like ice cream a lot. It...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 24, 2023 | Welcome Column
I enjoy cooking a lot a lot. Which is to say I enjoy cooking lots of food for lots of people. I’m told I do pretty well cooking for large groups, but that’s not always been the case. Mid way into adulthood, I’d never cooked at all. I was a wood worker and loved...
