by Christine | Dec 21, 2017 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass is group music. I’ve heard it described as hillbilly chamber music, each instrument contributing its own voice to the ensemble. Another comparison is with a New Orleans jazz band, with the mandolin and fiddle taking the role of the clarinet,...
by Christine | Mar 27, 2019 | Welcome Column
The California Bluegrass Association is dedicated to spreading the word about bluegrass, gospel, old time and american acoustic music. And based upon the young folks I’ve seen at our events, we’re doing a good job. Bluegrass is such a community-based music at heart...
by Christine | May 25, 2011 | Welcome Column
In case you didn’t know, there’s a bit of a bluegrass festival coming up. In less than a month, hordes of bluegrass faithful will descend upon the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley for the 36th edition of the CBA’s Father’s Day Festival. I’m getting pretty...
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...
