Please

Please, please, please, dear members of our CBA family, stay safe. Do what’s in your heart to protect yourself, your family and your larger bluegrass family. We’ll weather this, but it will take a group effort. It will take the love and respect and plain...

Please Be Watchful of Rattlesnakes

Today’s column from George Thursday, July 9, 2009 Somebody at the Nevada County Fairgrounds is a skilled motivator. I noticed two handwritten signs in the run-up to the festival (I was there early for music camp). One was in some flower beds over near the...

Please Give

PLEASE GIVE TO THE CAMP (CREEK) FIRE FUND RAISING EFFORT. Every dime we raise is further validation of the power of our Association to care for and nurture the dual traditions of bluegrass and old-time and the people who love them.

Please Step Into the Transporter, Bones

We need our senses to navigate through our world – to survive. We have this in common with all other species. We sense our environment so that we may eat, defend ourselves, reproduce. On some level, so do sponges, trees, paramecia and dung beetles. But some species (I...

Please, Sir – May I Have Another (Instrument)?

The easy answer to the question above is, of course “Yes, of course!” But it depends upon the availability of funds and storage space. Like most active musicians, I suffer from “Instrument Acquisition Syndrome” (also known as IAS) to a degree. But nice instruments are...

Plenty of Room in Bakersfield

Lately I’ve been reading and hearing the laments of hard-core bluegrass people that their plans to attend the eigth annual GREAT 48 Jam in Bakersfield have been scrubbed because they waited too long to book a room at the Marriott Hotel. Thought I’d better...