by Christine | Jan 21, 2007 | Welcome Column
When you wake up in the morning, stick your head out from under the covers and can see your breath, you know it’s cold. Even for the mountains, it’s very, very cold. My head went back under the covers and stayed there another forty-five minutes or so until the propane...
by Christine | Apr 27, 2016 | Welcome Column
One of the absolute joys of bluegrass is its organic nature – just people, wires and wood to make that beautiful music! How pure! How real! How authentic! We can all gather on the front porch or in the parlor and knock ‘em dead all afternoon. It’s one of the...
by Christine | Jul 14, 2020 | Welcome Column
We have been trying to downsize. After my mother died three years ago Barbara and I discovered what it is like to clean out the house of someone who saved everything. After we emptied and rehabbed Mom’s place we rented it to a woman who was something of a clean freak...
by Christine | Jan 12, 2017 | Welcome Column
We have been trying to downsize. After my mother died three years ago Barbara and I discovered what it is like to clean out the house of someone who saved everything. After we emptied and rehabbed Mom’s place we rented it to a woman who was something of a clean freak...
by Christine | Jun 28, 2008 | Welcome Column
Reading Mark Evans’ Message Board thread entitled “One Association would benefit all California Bluegrassers” and the responses to it took me back to another time in my life, a time when I served as lead staff to the Santa Clara County Committee on School District...
by Christine | Feb 8, 2017 | Welcome Column
One of the bands I’m in is breaking in a new member, and I had forgotten how much a new musician in the mix affects the band’s sound. It makes me realize that a band needs to decide if they’re going to expect a newcomer to conform to their sound, or embrace the...
