by Christine | Aug 31, 2010 | Welcome Column
Another beautiful day in California’s Mother Lode, where gold was king one hundred and fifty years ago, where picturesque little mining towns all along Highway Forty-Nine once provisioned an army of men in desperate search of that one big strike, and where today...
by Christine | Jul 22, 2016 | Welcome Column
It’s exam time in the Cayman Islands at the moment. Which is another way of saying I am tired and my students are stressed. There’s an odd sort of feeling on campus at this time of the year. Everyone is a bit punch drunk from a long and busy semester. Everyone,...
by Christine | Oct 13, 2019 | Welcome Column
We all know that exercise is good for our bodies. I ride my bicycle almost every day and I love it. Get the blood pumping and you’re more ready for everything else you do that day. Exercise is good for our minds too, but when it comes to music,...
by Christine | Jan 29, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note—Well, we’ve got ourselves a nice little knot of FIFTH days of the month, so we’ll be doing some strolling down memory lane. If you’re going to go exploring the banjo, not many better to take on the trip than Bill Evans, who published this piece right...
by Christine | Nov 26, 2010 | Welcome Column
Like a lot of us, I discovered bluegrass and the banjo in a somewhat non-bluegrass kind of way: I saw Roy Clark playing banjo on “Hee Haw” and said to myself, “I think I could do that!” It’s been an interesting journey since 1970 along the banjo road but one of the...
by Christine | Mar 27, 2020 | Welcome Column
It happened in, around, near, or not too far from Palo Alto, California. To be more accurate, but more generalized, it happened someplace in Santa Clara, County, CA. The year was 1993. It wasn’t a big explosion, just a small one, one of many in the state of California...
