by Christine | Apr 13, 2015 | Welcome Column
Recently when Nell Robinson contacted me about some upcoming performances of her show Rose of No Man’s Land she mentioned that one of the venues would be Villa Montalvo. I was pretty sure she did not know the nature of this amazing place on the edge of the Santa Cruz...
by Christine | May 28, 2014 | Welcome Column
A good friend and I have been debating (amicably) the appropriate tactics to ensure a bluegrass open mic we host will in fact, focus on bluegrass. Open mic events being, well, open, they sometimes attract some folks who don’t really understand bluegrass or maybe even...
by Christine | Mar 14, 2013 | Welcome Column
Tomorrow is the Ides of March, famous as the day Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate by Brutus, Cassius and a bunch of others. That was in 44 BCE, which would be about 2057 years ago. The Roman historian Plutarch writes that Caesar had been warned...
by Christine | May 19, 2019 | Welcome Column
This is not your Fleetwood Mac column or some aberration from the Bluegrass path! It might even be somewhat nefarious (nawww not really). But, with all this weather we have been hit with lately…all of May’s rain for the SF Bay area in one day with more on the horizon,...
by Christine | May 26, 2013 | Welcome Column
I am the kind of Grandmother who would travel 3,000 miles for a chance to babysit my ten year old granddaughter. Ali’s parents (my daughter and son-in-law) have gone to Croatia to celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. My reception at their home in Warwick,...
by Christine | Oct 11, 2020 | Welcome Column
Enough of this already! We are all going through Corona virus burnout now and unfortunately it’s far from over. Yesterday would have been John Prine’s 74th birthday but this terrible virus ended his life well before he had written all of his songs for us.I Zoom jammed...
