by Christine | May 2, 2016 | Welcome Column
I just returned from a week in Nashville where I attended Leadership Bluegrass, a program produced by the IBMA. Roger Siminoff, Joe Weed, Jacob Groopman, Dana Thorin, Yvonne Tatar and Maria Nadauld are the three CBA member Leadership Bluegrass graduates I knew...
by Christine | Apr 28, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Starting to look a lot like bluegrass season. Coming up this weekend there are a couple of events that play into that perception. On May 3rd, all day there will be a civic event in the town of Windsor that has morphed into a one day bluegrass festival....
by Christine | May 3, 2011 | Welcome Column
My favorite festival of the year is getting closer. The Father’s Day Festival in Grass Valley was where it all began for our family in the mid 80’s. I have close friends who attended from the beginning but we didn’t get there until the 9th or 10th and were immediately...
by Christine | May 4, 2015 | Welcome Column
This April and May are busier than usual at CBA Headquarters. We are celebrating 40 years with a bang and a leap into the electronic world. We have come a long way since the first mimeographed Bluegrass Breakdown and first festival four decades ago. The new...
by Christine | May 4, 2010 | Welcome Column
We began attending the Father’s Day Festival in the mid 80’s and by 1989 or 1990 we met a contingent of Alaskan bluegrassers who were also attending the festival. Grass Plus was on a western tour after winning (as I recall) a Pizza Parlor Bluegrass contest and were on...
by Christine | May 18, 2010 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where, for the time being anyway, everything is eye-poppingly green. Far and away the loveliest season up here in the Mother Lode. The now 13-member strong board of directors met on Saturday and, as you’d expect, most of our agenda...