by Christine | Mar 31, 2011 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: This being a fifth Thursday of the month, writing duties would typically fall on Rick Cornish. However, as some of you may have read, his table saw mishap has left him temporarily less than dexterous. (Took him fifteen minutes to write this paragraph.)...
by Christine | Dec 15, 2014 | Welcome Column
Suppose you decide to play a recording from Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, or the Stanley Brothers or Flatt and Scruggs. You’re about to listen to some Bluegrass music, right? After all, these are the bands that form the pillars of the genre we now call Bluegrass...
by Christine | Aug 19, 2013 | Welcome Column
Old Doc wasn’t really that old, but he’d been at it a long time. During thirty years of practice in this small town he’d delivered most of the current residents who were under that age. He worked very hard but it was worth it for him. Sure, it was...
by Christine | Oct 9, 2020 | Welcome Column
Maybe you know how to spot them. Maybe you’ve see them being played on various bluegrass festival stages, or in jams. Or maybe not. But they are there, occasionally, every so often, or once in a “blue moon.”Sometimes their sound will catch your ear. Sometimes...
by Christine | Sep 11, 2010 | Welcome Column
Maybe you know how to spot them. Maybe you’ve see them being played on various bluegrass festival stages, or in jams. Or maybe not. But they are there, occasionally, every so often, or once in a “blue moon.” Sometimes their sound will catch your ear. Sometimes...
by Christine | Dec 20, 2018 | Welcome Column
Someone asked me recently for a copy of a cassette tape which was recorded in 1980. As I am now in my eighth decade, 1980 feels like yesterday, and it came as a bit of a shock to realise that I received that tape nearly forty years ago. I eventually found it by...
