by Christine | Jan 14, 2016 | Welcome Column
Some people say it’s better to be lucky than good. Bill Monroe was both lucky and good. He was an amazingly creative person, an endless fount of songs and tunes, and he worked for a long time to come up with a style of music that would be his own and live...
by Christine | Jan 12, 2015 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–We reach back four years for this one, and it’s absolutely amazing how Ted’s piece retains its relevancy to today’s bluegrass industry. ‘Industry’, you ask? You betcha, and a growing industry at that....
by Christine | Jan 15, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, I haven’t gotten the chance to welcome readers to our site for a couple of weeks. Hey everybody! It’s been a busy couple of weeks. The first weekend of 2008 my son Marty and I went up to Portland for the 4th annual River City Bluegrass Festival. It was a...
by Christine | Jun 28, 2009 | Welcome Column
I’ve spent the past couple months up in Humboldt County due to a family emergency. I always look forward to spending time in that area because I was born and raised there and much of my family resides there. Though this was not meant to be a pleasure trip I decided to...
by Christine | Sep 6, 2015 | Welcome Column
By Annie Alvira….the much favored offspring of MarcosMy favorite place to be is in the car and driving on an open road. As a kid, road trips with my parents ingrained themselves in the fabric of who I am. As an adult, I still relish looking out the window,...
by Christine | Nov 24, 2015 | Welcome Column
As I suspect is true of most of my generation from my part of the country, we have been driving vehicles since before we started walking toward tackle barns and country schools. On those tiny Georgia farms back in the 1930s, from the age of six, I drove...
