by Christine | Aug 29, 2015 | Welcome Column
Harrison Hamill, our young friend and fledgling banjo player, brought his friend into our camp at Grass Valley one day during the Father’s Day Festival in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s. Harrison and his brother Finnegan received free admission to The Freight and...
by Christine | Aug 31, 2020 | Welcome Column
Sit down and get comfortable while I tell you how I came to love Lady Gaga. She entered my life a few years ago, and I just don’t know what I’m going to do about her.It all has to do with some major plans of my older granddaughter, beautiful of course, and how...
by Christine | Oct 30, 2011 | Welcome Column
I DIDN’T spend my summer playing the fiddle. At the Fathers Day Festival we had our annual Welcome Writers jam at my campsite after the main stage show ended on Thursday night. I’d been pretty sick wen I arrived on Sunday and just seemed to get worse all week. By...
by Christine | Aug 5, 2015 | Welcome Column
Thursday, July 16, 2015 I “discovered” bluegrass last year via my 14 year old son, Patrick. In 2014, he joined the kid’s Academy that Darby Brandli started, thanks to the encouragement of Bruce and Scott Thompson, my husband’s cousins. I got to watch my son and his...
by Christine | Nov 16, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Today’s Bert Daniel’s day for a new Welcome column. Bert, who’s just about the most reliable of all our columnists, send the following email to me this morning…”Rick,I had a column written but forgot to...
by Christine | Nov 8, 2009 | Welcome Column
Well it’s been just over a year now that I’ve been privileged to be one of your intrepid welcome columnists and I’d like to thank all of you loyal readers for hanging in there with me. Remember, good comments (and any significant cash contributions) go directly to me....
