by Maggie Sokolik | May 27, 2021 | Welcome Column
Usually, at this time of year, we’d be on our way to the Strawberry Music Festival, or thinking ahead to Father’s Day Festival. Of course, those aren’t happening, but life definitely feels like it’s making its slow return after an absence. One thing that is changing...
by Bert Daniel | May 26, 2021 | Welcome Column
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” ― Albert Einstein. Time is indeed relative as my pal pointed out. Folks of a certain age become aware that time...
by Bert Daniel | May 24, 2021 | Welcome Column
In the 2012 biography Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers, famed singer- songwriter Kris Kristofferson states “the legendary Louvin Brothers’ hauntingly beautiful Appalachian blood harmony is truly one of the treasures of American music”. In order to gain...
by Dave Berry | May 23, 2021 | Welcome Column
This interview was my first Welcome and Porch Talk/Bluegrass Breakdown column with now Grammy Nominated mandolinist for Front Country, the superb Adam Roszkiewicz. It was not called Porch Talk yet. – Dave Bluegrass Interviews This is a new occasional column by...
by robin | May 22, 2021 | Welcome Column
There wouldn’t be bluegrass without someone to play it, but there also wouldn’t be bluegrass without fans to hear it. Jan Vincent is a bluegrass fan who has made a difference. Her Jan’s World website (https://jansworld.net/) has collected and preserved the...
by robin | May 21, 2021 | Welcome Column
It’s so encouraging to see Patrick Campbell’s recent headline on the CBA pages: “Live Music is BACK!” Playing music with other people in the same space has attained the status of an endangered species for over a year now, and we can but hope and pray that things will...
