by Christine | Jul 22, 2009 | Welcome Column
I played a little Bluegrass festival this weekend: The first annual Loma Vista Farm Bluegrass Festival. I don’t know anything of the story of how the festival came about, how the festival fared against the promoters and/or backers’ expectations, or the prospects of...
by Christine | Jun 24, 2013 | Welcome Column
For the past six years or so we’ve been fortunate to have a very nice coffeehouse down the street that features live music. The Velo Rouge Café has become our home field, so to speak. We’ve had many memorable evenings there and have enjoyed the best of local Americana...
by Christine | Sep 25, 2011 | Welcome Column
As many of you know, my 97 year old mother-in-law, Lorene, passed away on September 9. She would have turned 98 on Christmas Eve. I’m thinking that the song title, “I’ve Lived A Lot in My Time,” pretty well sums things up for her. She was born in 1913, just ten years...
by Christine | Aug 30, 2017 | Welcome Column
Warning – this message contains generous helpings of curmudgeon. Folks who know me know I take casual dressing very seriously. Like most men, and most definitely men of my age, the paramount importance of clothes is to be comfortable, avoid indecent exposure...
by Christine | Mar 21, 2010 | Welcome Column
Boy those evil hackers must have done a real number on the website because half the links were dead dead dead as of Friday night. At least the front page is now loading without the google skull and crossbones beware all who enter will become zombified-bots warning. As...
by Christine | May 25, 2010 | Welcome Column
In a few weeks I’ll be packing up the old Argosy, hitching it up to the not quite as old F-15 and heading north to Grass Valley. I’ve been doing this since 1976 and you’d think I would have eventually gotten over the thrill of it. But I haven’t. By the time I start up...
by Christine | Jun 3, 2017 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where summer has loosed itself with one final push from a winter cocoon the likes of which this old man has never before experienced. A week from tomorrow I will drive to Grass Valley, California, for my 41st Fathers Day...
by Christine | Nov 7, 2015 | Welcome Column
The Daily Grist: “[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and...
by Christine | Jul 28, 2013 | Welcome Column
Many of us have been in jams that just “sort of happened;” they weren’t planned in advance. You know the routine, you are at a camp-out or festival and you take a quiet moment to practice on your instrument of choice, another musician walks up and starts picking with...
by Christine | Jan 8, 2010 | Welcome Column
We all have our drug of choice. Mine is music. We all have our bad habits. Those things that tear us down, complicate our lives. Things that war against our best interests. Some folks drink too much (been there). Ingest too many chemicals (been there). Gamble away...
