Everything I Know I Learned From Bluegrass

Thanks to the colorful nature of bluegrass lyrics, I can learn much of what I need to know just by listening to the songs. I know the skies in Ol’ Kentucky are “so blue” – which I have verified since first hearing it. I have learned that you may be able to find a...

Everything Must Change

“The young become the old And mysteries do unfold For that’s the way of time No one and nothing goes unchanged.” ~from “Everything Must Change” by Bernard Ighner Although I had been attending bluegrass concerts and festivals sporadically for five years, I...

Everything Must Change

Today’s column from Nancy Zuniga Thursday, June 4, 2009 “The young become the old And mysteries do unfold For that’s the way of time No one and nothing goes unchanged.” ~from “Everything Must Change” by Bernard Ighner Although I had been attending...

Everything’s Connected

If you hang around musicians, and get to know them as people, you have to marvel at the wide variety of backgrounds, lifestyles, proclivities and stories. Are they more varied than non-musicians? No, I don’t think so – people are inherently interesting and...

Evolving/Progressing

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...

Exame Time in the Tropics

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,...