by Christine | Oct 11, 2016 | Welcome Column
She’s brave, I thought. I could never be that brave. I sat in the audience under a shade tree at the Kings River Bluegrass Festival watching Oak Grove, the Schwartz family band. As a newcomer to bluegrass, I never encountered a family band with whom I...
by Christine | Mar 16, 2017 | Welcome Column
For many aficionados of bluegrass and old-time music world-wide, printed publications have been a vital source of information for over half a century. Books and magazines are now having to shift up to make room for internet resources, but I still regularly have...
by Christine | Oct 1, 2019 | Welcome Column
As Ripley might say, “Believe it or Not” there is a connection. Although if you try to find a connection between St. Augustine and Bluegrass you find that “Kentucky bluegrass and St. Augustine have little in common other than being green and widely used for lawns”....
by Christine | Dec 10, 2013 | Welcome Column
How do you take five not very noisy instruments that cannot be listened to without electronic amplification except in a rather small room and turn their music into something large groups of people can listen to? Add to this problem the fact that each of the...
by Christine | Nov 24, 2006 | Welcome Column
How do you do, you all! Sit yourself on a nice comfortable chair or bed and immerse yourself in a fantastic world of— oh, who am I kidding. This is Bluegrass ‘n Stuff. One of the coolest things you can do in music is incorporate dynamics into your playing. That’s like...
by Christine | Jul 11, 2012 | Welcome Column
As a convert from rock and blues music to the joys of bluegrass, I have learned that the differences between these musical worlds is not limited to the music. There are deep cultural differences as well. Ted Lehman’s column yesterday brought up the subject of encores,...
