Christmas

If you didn’t get a Christmas card from me this year please don’t be offended. Nobody did. I could blame the notoriously slow postal system from the Caymans but I think I’ll be truthful and just explain that I don’t really celebrate Christmas....

Christmas Bluegrass

Christmas time is past and gone, to adapt a phrase of Bill Monroe’s, and I hope you had some great bluegrass music over the holiday period. Music found its way into my own Christmas in some surprising ways. Our children with their families came over to...

Christmas Chestnuts

The Christmas season came early this year for our family. Thanksgiving arrived as early as it ever does and on the very next day, Black Friday, my daughter Juliet had a gig playing Christmas tunes at a shop downtown. The idea was to have live Christmas music to get...

Christmas Chestnuts

For all of you holiday jammers and merry makers who get tired of the same old overplayed Christmas carols every year, here’s my list of lesser played tunes from a few years ago.  Many of these can be found on YouTube and in Craig Duncan’s A Fiddling...

Christmas in June

Yesterday, Geoff and maggie write about a subject dear to my heart as well.  The CBA Music Camp has meant a lot to me and my family over the years.  Registration will not open until February but there is a link on the web site for last minute Christmas...

Christmas in June

Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where the better part of the day will be spent on a massive, well-coordinated, take-no-prisoners campaign to return the Cornish home and surrounding property to the pristine condition in which it was left ten days ago when the boss...