by Christine | Sep 16, 2012 | Welcome Column
Have you ever been on a picnic? You know what I mean, where someone (the picnicker) takes the trouble to spend time making sandwiches or maybe frying chicken, baking cookies, tossing up some good potato salad, chilling a thermos of freshly brewed sweet tea or a bottle...
by Christine | Jun 22, 2012 | Welcome Column
How long does it take you for life to get back to “normal” after a Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival experience? That’s a profound question on several levels, when you stop to think about it. For me, re-entry into regular life began on Sunday afternoon with the fading...
by Christine | Jul 19, 2018 | Welcome Column
In my humble opinion bluegrass music sounds best on a front porch, or in someone’s kitchen, or under a canopy in a festival campground.About 20 years ago when Mac Martin came to California for a series of shows I “interviewed” him for a story in the Bluegrass...
by Christine | May 8, 2015 | Welcome Column
Anybody that knows me, knows that I love gospel music. Not the kind of gospel that will make you snore on Sunday morning, the stuff that touches your heart or sets your soul on fire. Give me a black Baptist choir singing call and response gospel with a Hammond draw...
by Christine | Feb 22, 2016 | Welcome Column
”It’s friendship, friendship, just the perfect friendship. When other friendships will be forgot, ours will still be hot.”–Writer unknownIt was nice to see so many bluegrass associations represented at the Great 48 last month. And to see the many fans and...
by Christine | Jan 20, 2019 | Welcome Column
Southern Pacific locomotive number 4449, the last of the GS-4 classof locomotive’s that pulled the coast daylight train between SanFrancisco and Los Angeles. It was built in May of 1941 by the Limalocomotive Works, and it was a 4-8-4 configuration, which...
