Strange Banjo Stories

Seeing that giant banjo made by Don Timmer and his wife for their wedding ceremony and party a few years back started me thinking about the potential for banjos and just general strangeness. So I’ve done some research. Mayhem in Montgomery Police arrived at the home...

Strange Banjo Stories

Seeing that giant banjo made by Don Timmer and his wife for their wedding ceremony and party a few years back started me thinking about the potential for banjos and just general strangeness. So I’ve done some research. Mayhem in Montgomery Police arrived at the home...

Strange Days

Yep…they are at that strange, weird, surreal, and for me a wee claustrophobic. Last month somehow my new puppy got loose and posted a column. I must apologize for that. It has been 16 years since I last had to raise a puppy and I forgot just how disruptive and sneaky...

Strange Things

Strange thing this music. It can make us stand up and dance, it can make us cry, make us wistful, happy, joyous, angry, content. Music can calm our emotions, music accompanies us to war and is played to mourn our dead. It’s everywhere we go. It never stops amazing me,...

Strawberry 1987 Camp Mather

Okay, okay. Since there is no Strawberry Musical Festival (as well as FDF Grass Valley) this year(2020), let’s get in the time machine and take more than a few steps back in time to 1987.It’s 1987, and I’m making my way from the Sonoma Valley to Camp Mather, near...