by Christine | Jan 28, 2011 | Welcome Column
We’ve got it so lucky here in northern California this time of year! In other parts of the country, live bluegrass becomes scarcer in the winter months but here in California, bluegrass music is as abundant and alive as the thick, deep green winter grasses on the...
by Christine | Feb 6, 2011 | Welcome Column
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...
by Christine | Feb 2, 2010 | Welcome Column
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...
by Christine | Feb 18, 2016 | Welcome Column
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...
by Christine | Jun 4, 2014 | Welcome Column
James Brown said “It’s a man’s world”. The same might be said about early bluegrass. Yes, there was Hazel DIckens (famously and importantly), but mostly, it was a male-dominated genre. In my first year of college, one of the male professors said “I am a feminist”, and...
by Christine | Jul 29, 2012 | Welcome Column
Just recently I entered into a debate about a certain behavior, by only a few currently, but growing rapidly, and occurring at festivals all over. That is the dancers who appear at festivals all over the country. These dancers like to get as close as possible to the...
