by Christine | Aug 6, 2011 | Welcome Column
First, let me thank all of you who signed my candidate’s petition for the Board of Directors election. I will do my best to live up to your expectations. Recently there was a suggestion posted on the Message Board for increasing membership in the association, to wit,...
by Christine | Aug 18, 2013 | Welcome Column
Over the past year, the CBA Board of Directors has discussed several ways to modify our policies and by-laws to allow us to address urgent issues that arise between board meetings and to take advantage of new technologies that could help the CBA function better. The...
by Christine | May 12, 2015 | Welcome Column
I read somewhere that in a national study commissioned by IBMA about a variety of measures exploring the popularity and penetration of bluegrass music there were approximately twenty million people claiming to listen to bluegrass music. That’s a lot of people,...
by Christine | Mar 5, 2012 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Happy Monday morning. I’m giving today’s Welcome over to my boy Marty. I’m looking forward to seeing the Punch Brothers show with him this coming Thursday in San Francisco. I’m also happy to mention that he will be performing with Billy and Sarah, and...
by Christine | Feb 7, 2015 | Welcome Column
Yes, the new Punch Brothers album. The Phosphorescent Blues has drums. Let’s just get that out in the open before I begin my review of what I believe to be the greatest album the Punch Brothers have put out yet. Everything is just on a larger scale than their...
by Christine | Apr 13, 2010 | Welcome Column
The Cloverdale (California) “Old Time Fiddle Festival” is mostly a fiddle contest. This festival has been held every year for the past thirty-five years, the last one being on January 23rd and 24th of 2010. The goals of this festival are to help perpetuate the...
