by Christine | Jan 31, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Ted Lehmann, long a CBA Welcome column writer who’s now scribbling for No Depression, wrote this piece just under ten years ago. We thought it’d be illuminating to look at Ted’s reporting and predictions of the Women’s...
by Christine | Dec 13, 2014 | Welcome Column
If you have learned, have been learning, or are just starting to learn to play the fiddle, you know that it is a difficult instrument to conquer. It has to be said that a person really never learns all there is to know on the fiddle, because like all musical...
by Christine | Aug 28, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, My kids are back in school today. Sigh. Sure is nice having them around during the summertime, but the world keeps turning. Late last week we had the Schwartz kids, Max and Nate, over to play music and have fun for a couple of days. Their band, with...
by Christine | Sep 23, 2010 | Welcome Column
Things I think of while driving in my beloved Sierra Nevada Mountians; I got up at 4:30 AM this morning, my usual time fer old retired pipefitters who caint break the habit of gittin’ up early to go to work. Go figger! [ My ol pal Slim can vouch fer this habit...
by Christine | Aug 7, 2013 | Welcome Column
Yep, I like bluegrass music just fine. One of the things I like about bluegrass is pickin’ with friends and strangers. I have been fortunate enough to play bluegrass with friends or strangers in a lot of different places. Various states, various countries – bluegrass...
by Christine | Sep 26, 2009 | Welcome Column
Kiwis, orange sherbet, and Earl Grey Tea, what do these have in common? When I was a couple months pregnant with my son, I had the usual malady—morning sickness. It’s the kind of icky sensation where you feel like there would be some sort of flavor, some kind of tang,...
