by Christine | Apr 18, 2019 | Welcome Column
Towards the end of the 1950s folk music aficionados were becoming aware of a genre of American music known as ‘old-time’ or ‘old-timey’. It had a mystical aura of purity, free from the contamination of ‘commercial’ music. There was an unfortunate connection with...
by Christine | Apr 18, 2019 | Welcome Column
Towards the end of the 1950s folk music aficionados were becoming aware of a genre of American music known as ‘old-time’ or ‘old-timey’. It had a mystical aura of purity, free from the contamination of ‘commercial’ music. There was an unfortunate connection with...
by Christine | Feb 16, 2012 | Welcome Column
Does the above title sound like an oxymoron to you? It does to me. After all old time music is, well, old. It hearkens back to a time before any of us were born. In the hey day of old time music, the term “tech savvy” might have meant that you actually...
by Christine | Sep 10, 2009 | Welcome Column
I found myself in (I believe) the first old-time music jam of my life a few weeks ago at the Golden Old Time campout in Boonville. I didn’t have the courage to bring my Vega open back banjo; I wasn’t sure I could keep up. So I took my guitar and my small repertoire of...
by Christine | Jun 15, 2010 | Welcome Column
Recently, I completed a goal that had eluded me for about a half a century. I read through the entire Old Testatment from beginning to end. And, in a big way, Bluegrass was my inspiration! Even though my column generally falls on a Sunday, I write about religious...
by Christine | Dec 7, 2010 | Welcome Column
I’ve received and sent a remarkable number of emails in the past couple weeks devoted to the old-time-day-at-the-FDF concept. (All good, I might add.) As we stated here, we’re leaving the planning for the occasion up to Mark Hogan and Carolyn Faubel, but they’ve asked...
