Remembering Jam Class

by | Mar 7, 2016 | Welcome Column

 (Editor’s Note:  This morning we welcome a new Welcomer, Andrei Ferrera.  Andrei is a communications director at Children’s Day School in San Francisco. He has been playing bluegrass music for close to twenty years.  In recent years,...

Remembering James King

by | Jun 9, 2016 | Welcome Column

I wasn’t surprised to hear that James King had passed away last month.  Having seen him live many times over about 25 years, I knew  that James enjoyed beer.  He was a singer’s singer — one of those rare people blessed with such a powerful,...

Remembering Two Friends

by | Jul 9, 2009 | Welcome Column

There are memorial jams today for two friends of mine who were part of our bluegrass community, Nick Champlin and Reza Honarkhah. I wanted to write something remembering Nick and Reza this morning, and I think it is particularly appropriate to do it here, because I...

Remembrances of Rose

by | May 20, 2007 | Welcome Column

Tonight as I sat here watching the sun go down, I was listening to my favorite Native American flute player, R.Carlos Nakai, as he played several traditional Native American [Indian] melodies, on a flute that is made of cedar, and has 5 or 6 finger holes on it. The...

Renewing The Music

by | Aug 19, 2019 | Welcome Column

One of the things I love best about bluegrass music is how fluid it is. People are writing great new tunes every year. It’s a genre that has been around for longer than I have been living and that makes it pretty old by definition. But the music is always being...