by Christine | May 14, 2018 | Welcome Column
If one has read my reviews, they would realize I emphasize album cohesiveness and variety more than many fellow bluegrass writers. I do this because if bluegrass is to be recognized in the same breadth as more popular and appreciated genres, we must hold ourselves to...
by Christine | Dec 17, 2018 | Welcome Column
I’ve always thought it would be cool to be a disk jockey on the radio. Spin just the right tunes from a vast music collection for all you listeners to enjoy, just as if you were at a party with your closest friends. My little brother was a DJ in college and even...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2010 | Welcome Column
Christmas hasn’t been quite the same for the past three years. For some years prior, Henry and I had made a point of visiting my Aunt Marge in a nursing home in Alhambra every year on Christmas day which also happened to be her birthday. At first, we brought a...
by Christine | Apr 6, 2018 | Welcome Column
1.”Standing up to an enemy is tough. Standing up to your friends is tougher.”Facebook: Facebook really did seem like a good idea at the time. Sometimes with technology coming at us at like a comet folks seem to get caught up on all the great things that can happen and...
by Christine | Apr 1, 2018 | Welcome Column
Hey AllIn case you live in the boonies and don’t know what I’m talking about – Spring Camp Out is a week Full of Music, Friends and Frivolity!We get started in Turlock, CA on Monday, April 16, 2018 and play bluegrass until Sunday afternoon, April 22,...
by Christine | Mar 16, 2011 | Welcome Column
Last night, I wrote a veritable masterpiece of a column. This morning, I forgot to upload it and now I’m at work, 23 non-connected miles from that masterpiece. This column ran about this time last year – I apologize for the rerun. – BC Let’s see,...
