by Christine | Jan 3, 2021 | Welcome Column
You know about it, or you should know about it, if you are a bonified (or if you prefer, bona fide), dyed in the wool blue-grasser. The “it” in this case is the well known monthly magazine regarding all things bluegrass, titled, “Bluegrass...
by Christine | Jan 4, 2021 | Welcome Column
Back in the middle of the last century, about spring of 1962 “The San Joaquin Valley Boys” band, fell victim to one of these phony T.V. “Talent Contests”. Here’s what triggered the memory of that phony “gig”.One day this week,...
by Christine | Jan 5, 2021 | Welcome Column
There are a lot of great banjo players in the world, we all know. I guess if you had to pick one as the Very Best you’d have to go with Bela Fleck. A few weeks ago I watched a live stream on the internet from Nashville as Bela performed his own concerto for banjo and...
by Christine | Jan 6, 2021 | Welcome Column
The title is a joke – of course I wish everyone a happy new year. As I’ve mentioned before, our culture tends to make a big deal about calendar-based transitions and raise them to the level of important life events. We do this in our financial lives –...
by Christine | Jan 7, 2021 | Welcome Column
Me, like every other amateur or semi-amateur musician (I lost my amateur status long ago,) when faced with the prospect of being locked down for some extended time, promised myself that I would get to the shed and improve my chops. I started well, working with Strum...
by Christine | Jan 10, 2021 | Welcome Column
The Daily Grist: “I never met a man I didn’t like” Will RogersDivision is really hard. Just ask any third grader struggling with their math assignment. Other divisions are even more traumatic. We have seen deep divisions boil over in a way recently that we could never...
