by Christine | Apr 10, 2019 | Welcome Column
Hello! Things are very very quiet here at CBA headquarters in beautiful Ceres, California. Actually, there is no CBA HQ per se – please don’t tell anyone.But it IS darn quiet, because pretty much everyone is up in Lodi for the CBA Spring Campout...
by Christine | Oct 24, 2010 | Welcome Column
In my last column, I covered the Plymouth Festival. I barely got home from that event and did a little laundry and we headed south to Hobb’s Grove. Hobb’s is a nice setting for a festival; having a Country Fair atmosphere with a nice grassy camping area. The stage and...
by Christine | Jan 3, 2010 | Welcome Column
Writing this column a few days before January 1, I’ve pondered the list of potential topics that are scribbled in a note pad next to my computer. After ten Christmas vacation days of torpid inactivity, those topics requiring mental energy have been passed over. I’m...
by Christine | May 12, 2019 | Welcome Column
Noodling can be good and noodling can be bad. Full disclosure here, I really like to noodle around on my instrument. I do it almost every chance I get. I realize that were it not for noodling my music would get stale and I would have a tough time coming up with new...
by Christine | May 17, 2018 | Welcome Column
When you are learning to play a musical instrument it’s not uncommon to get burnout in your practice sessions. A friend who was learning to play banjo once said to me, “Every day I practice all the tunes I’ve learned and then I don’t know what...
by Christine | Feb 12, 2010 | Welcome Column
When Lloyd Butler died and left me his beautiful martin guitar, he also left me the case that came with it. On that case were a number of stickers and slogans mostly concerning his association with bluegrass music. There were bumper stickers for the California...
