by Christine | Sep 2, 2019 | Welcome Column
If you are like me, you spend a lot of time looking/hoping/praying for the perfect jam, or at least the pretty-near-perfect jam. And when they happen, they stick in your memory. Sometimes it’s not an entire jam, just a moment. It comes, it goes, and...
by Christine | May 6, 2019 | Welcome Column
First Mondays are reserved for a message from our Association president. Well, not today…Darby and husband Bruno are in Paris celebrating their 50th anniversary.Please join our cbaweb team, all our CBA staff and, of course, our membership, in wishing these...
by Christine | Jul 9, 2010 | Welcome Column
I got to the fathers day festival on the Friday before the festival started. My wife dumped me off and took off with the car, and I was stuck there precisely where I wanted to be, fifty feet from the restroom with the shower, right next to where Lucy (My guitar hero)...
by Christine | Sep 17, 2009 | Welcome Column
It was about seven years ago that the process for selecting FDF bands began to see substantial changes. The leadership of the Association sought to find a system of creating line-ups that would yield the best shows possible for the least amount of money. It sought a...
by Christine | Sep 18, 2009 | Welcome Column
Is the family band a rich source of talent for the bluegrass music world, a way to keep families together in an increasingly fractured society, an exploitation of child labor, or a meal ticket used by cynical parents manipulating their children? I suspect it’s all of...
by Christine | Feb 29, 2020 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Once every couple years I post as my Welcome Column on the web page of the California Bluegrass Association the story of my wife’s bird. I keep coming back to the narrative because it’s got a solid moral that’s worth throwing...
