by Christine | Oct 14, 2020 | Welcome Column
After 6+ months of near-total lockdown, music seems to be emerging again, cautiously. Technology has been helpful in presenting music in a way that doesn’t involve risk to the players or audience. I’ve seen quite a few recorded and livestreamed performances, and this...
by Christine | May 8, 2013 | Welcome Column
I have been giving guitar lessons to a gentleman in his ‘40’s recently. He is a true beginner – he received a guitar as a gift and wants to learn how to play. I have never given lessons to a rank beginner before – it’s hard to know where to start. There’s so much to...
by Christine | Dec 13, 2013 | Welcome Column
The first column I ever wrote for the CBA on the web was about feeling music. I talked about how I didn’t want to just play music, or hear music, I needed to feel what I was playing, singing or hearing. Sid Lewis wrote a column in the last breakdown about sitting in...
by Christine | Aug 11, 2019 | Welcome Column
Since the age of recorded music began, people have made lots of money giving music lovers what they want. Music you can choose to listen to whenever you want to is a huge thing. In the past hundred years we’ve gone from wax cylinders to vinyl, tape, CDs...
by Christine | Oct 5, 2017 | Welcome Column
My band plays a fair number of independent living and assisted living places. We go way back to Stephen Foster and songs you learned at camp, and 1930s and ‘40s hit tunes, and Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, and we get a great response.Sometimes after the main show...
by Christine | Apr 16, 2008 | Welcome Column
How many times have you tried and tried to remember a song, and you just can’t quite remember it. But once you pick up your fiddle, or guitar, your fingers seem to remember the song. Clearly, music is wired into our brains along wholly different circuitry than our...
