by Bert Daniel | May 6, 2021 | Welcome Column
After 14 months of pandemic captivity, I played a gig last Saturday. It was so much fun, I’m planning to do it again this Saturday at the same venue, R&W Vineyards in Cupertino. The band that I’m playing with (and I use the term band loosely) is the Ames bluegrass...
by robin | May 3, 2021 | Welcome Column
I’ve been criticized for not taking Bluegrass seriously and disrespecting the music because good bluegrass music makes me want to dance. It’s fun music. Not just fun, it’s also funny. Bluegrass has a well-established sense of humor. To prove it, I asked some of...
by robin | Apr 23, 2021 | Welcome Column
“The CBA has been a thrill ride for me… I’m grateful to the CBA for the help raising my kids, taking me seriously in a leadership position, and turning the Grass Valley nights into magic.” (Mark Varner, Facebook, April 19, 2021) I’ve recently been recruited to...
by robin | Apr 20, 2021 | Welcome Column
When I discovered bluegrass music back in the mid-1960s I was puzzled by the contrast between the instruments used by the majority of bluegrass musicians and the folksy origins of ‘mountain music’ as it was often called. Impoverished hill farmers and miners couldn’t...
by robin | Apr 16, 2021 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass fans have heard about Alex Leach long before his hit single “Mountain Heartache” became a jam standard in the blink of an eye. Becoming a DJ at the age of 9 in East Tennessee at WDVX, Alex began his musical career behind the scenes and not on the stage. Of...
by robin | Apr 15, 2021 | Welcome Column
A couple of years back your CBA board established a Communications Strategy Committee to, among other things, review the website and suggest improvements. The website had been developed some two decades ago, and though it had been revised and patched up over the...
