by Christine | Feb 26, 2010 | Welcome Column
Music theory isn’t supposed to be very funny. It’s all about roman numerals, numbers, letters and other exotic symbols and generally intimidating stuff that’s somehow supposed to relate to the songs and tunes we actually play every day. However, leave it up to someone...
by Christine | Aug 25, 2010 | Welcome Column
Please let this summer continue – we’re not done with yet! Is it just me, or does this seem like a banner year for bluegrass around the state? Oh, I’m sure on some level, someone could claim, and maybe even prove that the bluegrass music business is suffering from a...
by Christine | Nov 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where the very comfortable mid-seventies bely the fact that fall is very much upon us. The leaves of the cotton wood trees have now mostly turned the brilliant yellow that signals their fall to Mother Earth, our five llamas and four...
by Christine | Dec 29, 2013 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where, with Lynn and me, my two sons, Phillip and Peter, their two wives Summer and Ivona, granddaughters Lexy, Ava and Lucy and grandson Ted, the humans actually tie the number of non-human mammals…ten to ten. Oh happy day. Actually,...
by Christine | Dec 7, 2011 | Welcome Column
It must be just the right time of year for pears. The past few weeks I have included a pear in my lunch every day, and they are wonderful! They’re sweet, but not too sweet – there’s a duskiness “behind” the sweetness. They have a fruity aroma that is not cloying, and...
by Christine | Dec 19, 2010 | Welcome Column
Do any of you ever wonder how some of these bluegrass groups get to where they sound so good? That might be a stupid question of course….especially considering who the folks are reading this. But I have to admit that sometimes it completely escapes me how...
