by Bert Daniel | Apr 20, 2022 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Here’s one I wrote a few years ago called the Department of Redundancy Department) Happy Easter to everybody! I have to admit that, for me, these days Easter isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. (pardon the pun) Easter egg hunts are mostly...
by Bert Daniel | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized, Welcome Column
If there’s one thing this world needs these days, it has to be harmony. We are all individuals but cooperation in matters of common interest can only lead to the greater good of all. If only people and the nations of the world held this simple idea closer to all of...
by robin | Apr 17, 2022 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Here’s one I wrote a few years ago called the Department of Redundancy Department) Happy Easter to everybody! I have to admit that, for me, these days Easter isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. (pardon the pun) Easter egg hunts are mostly...
by Bert Daniel | Apr 13, 2022 | Uncategorized, Welcome Column
This weekend we celebrate another Easter. It comes relatively late this year but can come as late as the 25th or as early as March 22nd since it’s based on the lunar calendar just like Chinese New Year. If the title of today’s column applies to you as a...
by Bert Daniel | Apr 8, 2022 | Welcome Column
Would Napoleon Bonaparte have liked Bluegrass and Old Time music? This is an interesting question. I think he probably would have. Sure, the music would have been more than a hundred years more “advanced” than what he was used to but likely the French emperor would...
by Bert Daniel | Apr 4, 2022 | Welcome Column
Suppose you decide to play a recording from Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, or the Stanley Brothers or Flatt and Scruggs. You’re about to listen to some Bluegrass music, right? After all, these are the bands that form the pillars of the genre we now call Bluegrass...