by Christine | Oct 22, 2010 | Welcome Column
While many of us are still catching our breath from the recent IBMA convention in Nashville, I want to let CBA folks know about another professional music conference that’s happening this weekend in Santa Clara. It’s the Folk Alliance Regional West Conference, which...
by Christine | Dec 15, 2015 | Welcome Column
Don’t you know any songs without a bunch minor chords? How about some traditional bluegrass we all know? Try to avoid the “jambusters” this time. Is there really a transition from one style of music to another? While it is true that most of us who began our music...
by Christine | Aug 20, 2018 | Welcome Column
In the early 1960s the folk music revival in the UK was gathering pace. As a college student at the time I really wasn’t sure what folk music was. We had sung so-called folk songs at school, and elderly, usually rural, people were being ‘discovered’ singing old...
by Christine | Sep 17, 2015 | Welcome Column
Last week I attended a workshop on leadership, courtesy of my employer. It’s always interesting spending a day soaking up knowledge from a room of over 100 library-types. Of all the things I learned that day, the thing that stuck with me the most happened in the last...
by Christine | Nov 10, 2020 | Welcome Column
Sometimes writing a monthly welcome column is an absolute piece of cake. I flipthe page on my wall calendar for a new month and within a few hours a topiccomes to me, and I start thinking about it, working out the start and the middleand the end, and a few days before...
by Christine | Jul 13, 2019 | Welcome Column
As we approached the tall, grey stone walls I couldn’t tell how high they were. Fifteen feet? Twenty feet? Thirty feet? However tall, they were a pole vaulters dream. Especially from the inside.Getting out of the old, dirty, stinky prison bus, I stepped out with the...
