by Christine | Jul 23, 2010 | Welcome Column
This is the time of year that I find myself making my annual pilgrimage to South Plains College in Levelland, Texas for Camp Bluegrass. Now in its 24th year, Camp Bluegrass was created by guitarist and mandolin player Joe Carr, Joe’s wife Paula and banjo picker...
by Christine | Jul 31, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good fifth Monday morning of the month from here at Whiskey Creek, where the only thing wet about the creek is its name. By the end of November, if we’re lucky, it will begin to dribble, but by most mid-January’s the creek will roar and continue to do so till late...
by Christine | Oct 21, 2020 | Welcome Column
I can’t say why, but it seems like I’ve been seeing a lot of butterflies these past few weeks. I would think that’s a spring thing, but clearly autumn is OK with them, too. I’ve seen some Monarchs, which I had heard were greatly reduced in numbers due to destruction...
by Christine | May 21, 2018 | Welcome Column
I was reunited with a wonderful old friend at the Spring Campout in Turlock last month, the first Bluegrass instrument I ever bought. It was such a pleasure to once again hold in my hands and play the very instrument I had learned to play Bluegrass music on. My old...
by Christine | Jun 20, 2013 | Welcome Column
Well I guess Marcos, Jeanie, JD and Allan got together and unofficially declared June to be train theme month for the welcome column. I have always loved trains so here’s my obligatory train column. Sort of a Hooked on Trains column that I know few will read...
by Christine | Jan 31, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Ted Lehmann, long a CBA Welcome column writer who’s now scribbling for No Depression, wrote this piece just under ten years ago. We thought it’d be illuminating to look at Ted’s reporting and predictions of the Women’s...
by Christine | Dec 13, 2014 | Welcome Column
If you have learned, have been learning, or are just starting to learn to play the fiddle, you know that it is a difficult instrument to conquer. It has to be said that a person really never learns all there is to know on the fiddle, because like all musical...
by Christine | Aug 28, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, My kids are back in school today. Sigh. Sure is nice having them around during the summertime, but the world keeps turning. Late last week we had the Schwartz kids, Max and Nate, over to play music and have fun for a couple of days. Their band, with...
by Christine | Sep 23, 2010 | Welcome Column
Things I think of while driving in my beloved Sierra Nevada Mountians; I got up at 4:30 AM this morning, my usual time fer old retired pipefitters who caint break the habit of gittin’ up early to go to work. Go figger! [ My ol pal Slim can vouch fer this habit...
by Christine | Aug 7, 2013 | Welcome Column
Yep, I like bluegrass music just fine. One of the things I like about bluegrass is pickin’ with friends and strangers. I have been fortunate enough to play bluegrass with friends or strangers in a lot of different places. Various states, various countries – bluegrass...
