by Bert Daniel | Sep 14, 2021 | Welcome Column
Banjo players tend to get kidded a lot and jokes about them abound. In the interest of equal time, perhaps it’s time for some other instruments to have some good natured fun poked at them. Here’s a sampling of jokes about those oversize fiddle players we all treasure:...
by Bruce Campbell | Sep 22, 2021 | Welcome Column
You’ve seen it a million times at live shows – at some point, someone in the band says “We have a special guest joining us for a few songs” and out comes someone you didn’t expect who gets handed a guitar and plays with the featured band for a time. Sometimes, it’s...
by Bert Daniel | Sep 10, 2021 | Welcome Column
Here’s what I wrote ten years ago about what happenened in 2001: December 7th. September 11. In our country we remember these two dates as shocking moments of disaster caused by some of our fellow human beings. Human beings who calculated destruction for those of...
by Bruce Campbell | Sep 1, 2021 | Welcome Column
I’ve been lucky so far myself, but at one time or another, a lot of people I’ve known have suffered from theft of their musical instruments or equipment. Happily, this is very rare at bluegrass festivals, where a sense of community and good will (and a cost for...
by Bert Daniel | Dec 13, 2022 | Welcome Column
As so often, my current reflections have been prompted by music that I’ve happened to hear on the television. This time it was a snatch of the song ‘Stay’ which was the first major UK chart success for the Hollies in late 1963. I had always assumed that it was an...
by Bert Daniel | Sep 3, 2021 | Welcome Column
Sorry, I missed you last 1st Thursday. I lost my way for the first time in 10 years of doing this. Not to worry I’m back…mostly. However, I’m still trying to make sense of this pre, post or ongoing pandemic as it relates to jamming or playing casual gigs. I have never...
