What are You Playing?

(Editor’s note: Here’s on of Maggie’s from a couple years back.  We need this sort of list because hopefully soon we will have turned the COVID corner and we’ll need good songs to play with each other again.) A couple years ago, the Bluegrass Situation published...

The Language of Music

I have a clear childhood memory of the occasion when I first met someone who spoke a foreign language fluently. I still remember the excitement of discovering that this person could understand my simple schoolboy French and that I could understand her replies....

Remembering Jam Class

My introduction into the Bay Area bluegrass community began, oddly enough, at an Oscars party. It was March 2003 when I walked several blocks in the rain to a Sunday night gathering of movie buffs, and a few jammers, none of whom I had ever met. I was expecting a jam,...