by Christine | May 10, 2016 | Welcome Column
I just finished my second year as a coach and instructor at Pete Wernick’s Jam Camp in Boomer, NC in conjunction with MerleFest. This year the camp was even larger than last with a total of 75 students and 10 instructors ranging in age from 8 to 79. It was also nice...
by Christine | Jan 16, 2017 | Welcome Column
When I first became aware of Bluegrass music in the sixties, it was an all white male affair. By contrast, country country had featured women from its outset with Sara and Maybelle Carter on through Kitty and Patsy to Dolly and Loretta. But if you saw Bill Monroe or...
by Christine | Mar 22, 2020 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: We’re leaving Peter’s Welcome up another day because, even after my solemn promise to do do, yours truly forget to install links in his article. RC)Walking the dog around the neighborhood is still allowed, and I found myself...
by Christine | Mar 2, 2013 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Please do not confuse me with my son Marty, with whom I am swapping Welcome Column days this month. It is I, Varner the Elder. Feeling elder every day. As editor of the CBA’s monthly publication I owe much (VERY much) to my predecessor and mentor, the...
by Christine | Jan 20, 2018 | Welcome Column
(Note: If you enjoy this column, please make your way over to the CBA Message Board and share your thoughts. All of us Welcome Columnists love to hear from you!)She waddled and snuffled right into my life, the biggest puppy I had ever seen, when I had just turned...
by Christine | Sep 2, 2018 | Welcome Column
Nancy Zuniga’s recent column about the whimsical nature of fate and how the fanning of a butterfly’s wing can cause a hurricane in one’s life some years down the road brought to my mind the most momentous “mistake” I ever made. A casual bit of absent-mindedness that...
