by Christine | Jan 31, 2011 | Welcome Column
This is going to be a great year for California bluegrassers and for bluegrass in general! One week into the New Year (with a big bluegrass bash at my house on New Year’s Eve), scores of CBAers descended on Bakersfield for the 4th Annual Great 48 and dozens of the...
by Christine | Jan 7, 2013 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Hope everyone had a great time in Bakersfield at the CBA’s hugely successful Great 48! Welcome back to the “real” world, where a hot jam is not just a hallway away. Last time I wrote the 1st Monday Welcome column I was outlining and explaining the...
by Christine | Jul 27, 2012 | Welcome Column
I have two large portrait size photographs of two of my best friends Vern Williams and Ray Park, hanging in my living room. I look at them every morning noon and night. I love looking at these portrait size photographs that my good friend Tom Tworek took of them the...
by Christine | Jul 17, 2020 | Welcome Column
Last month I told you folks about the night my lips got polio fromdrinking too much Guinness Stout when the Vern Williams band wasplaying a gig with Rose Maddox at Raspberries nightclub in AngelsCamp California. For the last couple of days I have been dredging...
by Christine | Jun 30, 2009 | Welcome Column
I have to admit that, at least in my role as our web team leader, this is my favorite time of year. Traffic on cbaontheweb.org has been way up since June 21st, the last day of our Fathers Day Festival. While this has been pretty much the case immediately after each...
by Christine | Aug 29, 2019 | Welcome Column
New Country SongIf I could write a country song – say all red, white and’ blue – you know the stuff – ‘bout love and loss and I been done wrong too,” I’d bring my darling up on stage and light up her bright gold hair that she had doctored up...
