by Christine | Jan 3, 2019 | Welcome Column
There are only so many ways I can say it. Try as I might, I can’t sugar coat it. I am usually okay until the first week of November, before the 5:00 (or should I say the 4:30) shadows set in. What’s up with driving to a jam in total nighttime darkness at 6:30? The...
by Christine | Dec 18, 2010 | Welcome Column
Have you ever noticed that more gets done with a deadline? Of course – you may be that super motivated individual that most of us envy. The one who gets the entire to do list completed, no matter how mundane the activity. In that case, today’s column will be entirely...
by Christine | Dec 23, 2010 | Welcome Column
Dear Folks: Well, here it is December of ’10, and we are about to embark on a NEW decade! Who’d a thunk we’d all be here, way back in June of “76 when we didn’t know we couldn’t put on a Bluegrass festival, so we did it anyway!...
by Christine | Sep 2, 2013 | Welcome Column
Back in the days when opossums wore sandals because the Earth had not as yet cooled, I was my son Marty’s age. He’s just started his senior year in high school. He’s certainly a lot more grounded and focused than I was at that age, I’m proud to say. I was a troubled...
by Christine | Jan 5, 2019 | Welcome Column
I had only recently started listening and playing bluegrass music when I headed off to college in Mississippi. That’s right – native San Franciscan, Ole Miss, class of 1981. It was quite an adventure all the way around and a big part of it was falling in with the...
by Christine | Mar 25, 2013 | Welcome Column
I had only recently started listening and playing bluegrass music when I headed off to college in Mississippi. That’s right – native San Franciscan, Ole Miss, class of 1981. It was quite an adventure all the way around and a big part of it was falling in with the...
by Christine | Aug 29, 2016 | Welcome Column
Thanks to Rick Cornish and to the California Bluegrass Association for giving me this opportunity via the Welcome Column to thank everyone who has shown support to my family with this week’s Freight and Salvage concert on Friday, September 2nd. As we get older (and,...
by Christine | Nov 30, 2012 | Welcome Column
The California Bluegrass Association election held every year in October has come and gone. Close to 20% of the membership voted this year. Most years there are very few changes to our Board and Officer lineup but this year was different. The Board of Directors has...
by Christine | Nov 5, 2018 | Welcome Column
Your Association has been busy in 2018 and we are wrapping up another busy year. Many of us just returned from IBMA’s World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, we had our Fall Campout in Lodi and our Annual Election and Membership Meeting, Lucy Smith in Chico has produced two...
by Christine | Dec 1, 2014 | Welcome Column
The CBA has had a very busy autumn. Please read Lucy Smith’s article on the International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA) World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC in this issue. Almost every Board member attended as did our hardworking team of volunteers. There were...
