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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,...

Sad Times

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...

Safe in the shadows of the street

It’s the Christmas season. A giving time. A time of year when many of us look beyond our own needs and perhaps become more acutely aware of the needs of others.I have a lot of homeless friends. Folks who I’ve met walking the bike trail around my...

Salinas fiddle contest, June 1977

 daily grist; a wise man once said nothing  – – – – – – -but, it wasn’t me. JDRhynesI don’t know if they still have this contest but back in June of 1977 during rodeo week in Salinas California they used to...

Same Place, Different Festival

The 11th annual KVMR Celtic Festival, a three-day music festival meets renaissance faire, took place September 28-30 at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley. This is a great festival for those who love Irish music (and its relatives) and the event’s...

San Francisco Celebrates Bluegrass Spring Jubilee

I’ve been the Area Activities VP for San Francisco for about eight or nine years and I try to do all I can to spread the word about the CBA, all the great things it does and all the wonderful people who make up the bluegrass community. If anyone I meet expresses the...