by Christine | Feb 6, 2013 | Welcome Column
Like just about every non-profit on this big blue marble, the California Bluegrass Association is always hungry for more members. We can never rest in trying to simultaneously please our current membership while trying to attract new members. We’ve wracked our aging...
by Christine | Mar 28, 2013 | Welcome Column
In 1997, the international bluegrass music Association moved its convention, tradeshow, and fan Fest from Owensboro Kentucky, to Louisville Kentucky. The Galt House Hotel was the headquarters for the shindig, there in Louisville, and was only a 20 min. $12 cab ride...
by Christine | Sep 27, 2018 | Welcome Column
Daily grist; When planning for one’s posterity it is best to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine, 1776 The other night I got to watching a movie on TV named the “Aviator”. It was about the famous...
by Christine | Aug 11, 2011 | Welcome Column
Wednesday afternoon and we are still pondering if we can get down to Hollister for any part of the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival, my second favorite after Grass Valley. We have to baby-sit until 5:30 p.m. on Friday, so we need to decide if it’s worth it to...
by Christine | May 25, 2018 | Welcome Column
When I was a kid, we spent Memorial Day tending the graves of friends and relatives. We picked flowers from my aunt’s garden—gladioli, asters, zinnias, and fragrant little pink sweet peas—and gathered them up with ribbons into bouquets and put them in mason jars...
by Christine | Oct 31, 2019 | Welcome Column
One of the first gigs I ever played (if playing free counts as a gig) was for the Red Cross chapter in the little town of Crockett, where I grew up. The chapter had some kind of volunteer relationship with the Napa State Hospital and they sent us up there to play a...
