by Christine | Sep 4, 2018 | Welcome Column
I find it interesting how it would appear that every organization or entity develops a culture of its own. Individuals that make up the group bring their own perspectives and views which combine with those of others and at some point a group dynamic appears. If you...
by Christine | Oct 10, 2009 | Welcome Column
When he was born, his parents named him, “Elderman.” That was his full name. He never knew his parents’ name, because by the time he began to wonder about that, his parents had passed on. They lived deep in the mountains of the Ozarks, where no...
by Christine | Aug 6, 2018 | Welcome Column
When people come to the eternal question of who is the greatest bluegrass band ever, most would automatically come up with the answer Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, Flatt and Scruggs, Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, or Jimmy Martin and the Sunny...
by Christine | Aug 6, 2012 | Welcome Column
Dear Friends, We want to congratulate everyone’s friend Snap Jackson and his significant other Erin Van Zant on the birth of their child, Milo Sebastian Borrego. This young man has been born into a world we can only wish more children could share. I have a little...
by Christine | Dec 13, 2018 | Welcome Column
The message board now and then erupts with the classic “What is Bluegrass?” question. Everyone can pretty much agree on what Traditional Bluegrass is, but as the music gets more modern, or from non-Southern Mountain sources, opinionsdiverge.And then time passes. The...
by Christine | Sep 13, 2014 | Welcome Column
Wikipedia’s definition of “Band Wagon” = “In layman’s terms the bandwagon effect refers to people doing certain things because other people are doing them, regardless of their own beliefs, which they may ignore or override. The perceived popularity of an object or...
