by Christine | Feb 9, 2014 | Welcome Column
You’d be pretty hard pressed to come up with the name of a mountain range which is more storied and sung about than the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially if you’re a Bluegrass fan. The Blue Ridge will forever be my favorite mountains. They were the first mountains I...
by Christine | Aug 13, 2019 | Welcome Column
Some readers may know that a large amount of my earliest musical memories were with AJ Lee. Whether it was with Kids on Bluegrass, or our travels with the Schwartz brothers in OMGG, I have heard and seen a large portion of AJ’s artistic growth. The same can be...
by Christine | Oct 13, 2020 | Welcome Column
I’ve been thinking of late, is my writing too much about family or possibly even too personal. And who really gives a tweedle-dee, Robin. I mean, I am writing a welcome column for a bluegrass paper, not for Chicken Soup for the Soul. It’s nothing...
by Christine | Oct 14, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Apologies to Edwin Starr for paraphrasing his work) Some of the benefits of bluegrass are obvious – the very existence of the CBA is a testament to that. But there are other, long-reaching, but less obvious benefits. Excess money spent on instruments and...
by Christine | Jan 2, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Apologies to Edwin Starr for paraphrasing his work) Some of the benefits of bluegrass are obvious – the very existence of the CBA is a testament to that. But there are other, long-reaching, but less obvious benefits. Excess money spent on instruments and...
by Christine | May 23, 2011 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass music is outdoor music. There are hundreds of bluegrass songs about hills, valleys, fields, streams, and other features of the landscape. Bluegrass jams always sound better outdoors, under the shade of pine trees on a hot summer day. And bluegrass fans wait...
