by Christine | Jun 3, 2009 | Welcome Column
Less than two weeks until Grass Valley folks! This is good time to point out that the joys offered by this yearly event go way beyond just hanging out with friends, jamming and watching some top notch Bluegrass acts. I am speaking, of course, on the natural fauna that...
by Christine | Oct 27, 2010 | Welcome Column
Gather ‘round children! So you want to hear a Halloween story? OK, here’s one I know you’ll like: The Phantom of the Campout. You younger kids might want to skip this one… The jammers huddled determinedly around the dim lantern. It was an unexpectedly cold night, but...
by Christine | Apr 23, 2019 | Welcome Column
Hand Open your hands and count the lines – blue and gray but not confederated signs of wrinkled times when under baking suns they held a tool of labor. Slicing crosswise, blue and glistening another deeper mark, but is it work – Nobody tells of when we fall and cry...
by Christine | Jun 23, 2009 | Welcome Column
It seems like every year at Grass Valley some theme or concept develops for me throughout the week and then serves to encapsulate that particular Fathers Day Festival. The concept reverberating in my weary, half-awake brain as I pulled out of Gate Four last morning...
by Christine | May 9, 2010 | Welcome Column
We’re very late getting today’s Welcome message up. I just arrived home from the Parkfeild Festival; thought I had today’s column covered but apparently not. I’d really like to tell you all about four wonderful days of bluegrass on the central...
by Christine | Apr 5, 2019 | Welcome Column
Beginning thought: A famous poet once said that ,“April is the cruelest month of the year.” What could possibly make April so cruel? April 15.. Need I say more?But there is this. April 8-14 turns April into the most joyful month with the CBA’s Annual...
