by Christine | Jul 1, 2018 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Here’s a column from Marty written in 2014. There have been very few Welcome column writers who have so consistently and for so many years supplied this spot with informative, entertaining and utterly accessible essays. Thanks, Marty....
by Christine | Oct 16, 2011 | Welcome Column
It’s going to be a short column today folks. I drove up to Colusa yesterday for the CBA FAll Campout and woke up early to write a short posting. This is my first campout, believe it or not and I wasn’t quite sure what we would discover. Yeah I get to use “we” as in me...
by Christine | Oct 15, 2019 | Welcome Column
What a glorious bluegrass season 2019 has been. As we have for going on fifty years, the big CBA family is headed to Lodi this week to celebrate a great ending and a terrific beginning of non-stop bluegrass. Come for the music, the friends, the food and everything in...
by Christine | Sep 15, 2010 | Welcome Column
These are the sounds that greet me on Monday morning: “Grrrrr” trills the pack of raccoons that surround me as I go to get the morning paper off the driveway, eying me menacingly, snapping their fingers, but they did not attack. They seem to be rehearsing for a...
by Christine | Feb 27, 2011 | Welcome Column
I began my spring cleaning quite a few weeks back. As I was going through the house, room by room, sorting, editing, polishing and dusting, it occurred to me that I have an awful lot of stuff that has no earthly purpose but to sit on the shelf or hang on the wall to...
by Christine | Oct 18, 2009 | Welcome Column
I was planning on going to the Fall campout this year, looking forward to it, waiting for it, anticipating it for the past 5 months. Instead of putting my camping gear in the shed after the Father’s Day Festival last June, I left it in the garage ready to load in the...
by Christine | Aug 21, 2010 | Welcome Column
Hello from our little slice of heaven here on Whiskey Creek. Our local web site, mymotherlode.com, has promised us a very livable 96 degrees today and I’m feeling very thankful. 2010 has been far and away the coolest summer we’ve had here in Jamestown since we arrived...
by Christine | Feb 2, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note—Yes, we had one once upon a time. Eleven years ago to be exact. His name was Kyle Abbott, he was a teenager…a YOUNG teenager…and his monthly column opened up wide the eyes of a certain segment of the northern California bluegrass community who were…this...
by Christine | Apr 10, 2004 | Welcome Column
Hi there! Well, I see no need for further introduction… As you may know, the fine folks at Family Tradition HQ (including yours truly) try to encourage beginners to play music (or at least an instrument) whether they like it or not. This guide will help you choose...
by Christine | Jul 24, 2013 | Welcome Column
Some folks wake up exuding confidence and keep on exudin’ all day long. I have days like that, I guess, but it’s not every day. If you have a normally upbeat outlook, it doesn’t take too much to get you feeling like you’ve got it made. Just a few affirmations of your...
