by Christine | Mar 21, 2019 | Welcome Column
How do we learn to play a musical instrument?From my early teens, when I was becoming more aware of popular music and the record industry, I recognised a distinction between people who played a musical instrument and those who didn’t. Rock bands, jazz combos and...
by Christine | Apr 10, 2011 | Welcome Column
My wife has a sarcastic nickname for me: The Musician. More correctly it’s: “The Musician”, because when she calls me that, you can actually hear the quotation marks. She doesn’t even have to say “quote; unquote”. Such is the degree...
by Christine | May 30, 2013 | Welcome Column
My wife has a sarcastic nickname for me: The Musician. More correctly it’s: “The Musician”, because when she calls me that, you can actually hear the quotation marks. She doesn’t even have to say “quote; unquote”. Such is the degree...
by Christine | Apr 5, 2011 | Welcome Column
So what would you have done had you been me? You get up one morning, check your email and find a note from someone called ‘scuttlegrass2011@gmail.com’ who’s volunteering to take over the news column. But…and here’s a big BUT…it’s got to be done on his/her terms....
by Christine | Feb 23, 2020 | Welcome Column
Wherever we go in bluegrass we hear from local people about a band (or bands) that are every bit as good as most touring bands and that we just must hear them. At festivals on showcase stages or in the field or parking lots (mostly a term of art these days), in...
by Christine | Nov 15, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where if day-top-day decisions were made by popular vote of all effected residents rather than decide-and-decree by a few self-appointed oligarchs the ratio between tennis balls and soup bones to I-pads and sugar free latte’s would...
