by Christine | Nov 26, 2018 | Welcome Column
There is something very ambivalent about my attitude towards “culture” and “art”. I always gravitate towards it and somehow cannot imagine my life without it, and the closest I get to experiencing pure bliss is in fleeting moments when music (or any other artistic...
by Christine | Jun 27, 2018 | Welcome Column
What do our senses do for us? Simply put, they detect changes and report them to us. It’s vital for survival – a glimpse of a threat, the sound of pending danger, the smell of smoke, or a sudden increase or decrease in temperature. Happily, the same senses...
by Christine | Jan 20, 2014 | Welcome Column
Today’s national holiday is a very special day with an anniversary twist this year. Some of us baby boomers can look back fifty years to a time when Martin Luther King, Jr. was in his heyday. This past summer we remembered the March on Washington and King’s famous “I...
by Christine | Jan 6, 2014 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Happy New Year to you and your kin. Thanks for joining us on the CBA’s glorious website. I hope 2014 will find each and every one of you who appreciates this major feat of bluegrass/old time celebration and communication giving credit to the poobah of...
by Christine | Oct 23, 2012 | Welcome Column
In the beginning…way, way back…we created a feature at the bottom of the right hand column of the cbaontheweb.org splash page called “Band News”. Though that name stuck for at least a couple of years, it quickly became clear that the term ‘band news’ was not broad...
by Christine | Aug 7, 2008 | Welcome Column
I had watched, for the umpteenth time, a dreadful commercial that is being shown on TV ad nauseam, when I got to thinking about the way in which memory is often tied to that which is off-kilter, offensive, or just plain wrong. I consider the ad in question to be the...
