Welcome from the CBA membership booth!

I’m composing this on Thursday from the Grass Valley Father’s Day Festival – and if you at the Festival on Saturday, when this publishes, feel free to come by and say hi! I’m actually assuming that you’all are too busy jamming and LIVING the festival to read a...

Welcome Three New Board Members

Well, we had quite a Spring Campout this year, and a remarkable CBA board meeting to top it off. At the end of the meeting, J.D. Rhynes announced that he was stepping down from his seat on the board. After nineteen and a half years of dedicated service our friend and...

Welcome to the Bluegrass Off Season

I hope that each and everyone one of you is enjoying a restful and peaceful week with friends and loved ones. If you’re a self-employed person like me, you’ll no doubt relate to how hard it is to pull out of work mode for very long at this time of year. Here’s a...

Welcome to the Comfort Zone

It happened again – my shirt exploded yesterday. I have a dress shirt that I really like, and I had a big meeting scheduled, so I had this shirt on. I went to brush my hair and bam! The shirt exploded – completely torn in the right shoulder blade area. I...

Welcome to the NEW ONLINE Bluegrass Breakdown!

As we mentioned in the May Bluegrass Breakdown, the printed newsletter will concentrate on timely information, current events, and some short form new and legacy columns. And we promised then that longer form columns, photos, in-depth interviews, less timely news...

Welcome Welcome Welcome

It’s an honor and a privilege to be a contributing and regular Welcome Columnist for the CBA website for – um, quite a few years now. As much as I’ve enjoyed writing the weekly Wednesday column, I have also enjoyed the other Welcome columns as well. I...