February 2017 President’s Message

Concerts, festival planning, new kid jams, Music Camp and Academy registration opening.  We are busy here at CBA Headquarters.  Administratively we are reviewing and updating the ByLaws but that is not as much fun as live music.  Ted Kuster, our new...

February Bluegrass Breakdown

Dear friends, We fans of West Coast bluegrass suffered a loss this weekend. Ken Orrick of Lost Highway passed away. I think one would be hard pressed to find any among our ranks who has not enjoyed Lost Highway’s music over the years. They were special to many, with...

February Days

February can be bleak in the Central Valley. We’ve seen weeks on end where the sky is flat and gray; the earth, far off in the distance, is the same dull, leaden hue. Land and sky form an ashen wall. The cold that rolls down from the mountains and rests on our...

February President’s Message

We are well into our 35th year as an organization and what a ride it has been! I spent the evening last night with CBA member #1, Carl Pagter, and he is still going as strong as the organization he co-founded so many years ago. Many of our other members have left us...

Feeling A Little Bit Older

Lately I’ve been kind of obsessed with change and implementing positive change in my life. Many good things have come out of that obsession – I am regularly churning out new art pieces for my Art Abandonment passion, my writing has improved and I’m constantly...