by Christine | Apr 8, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Re-posted from 2016–this cat is studying his butt off at graduate school. That’s what people do at graduate school.)At the beginning of the month, I was glancing through new bluegrass releases, wondering what album would be the most joy to listen to and...
by Christine | Jul 16, 2020 | Welcome Column
During lockdown in Britain a physical fitness instructor called Joe Wicks has achieved international fame through his P.E. with Joe daily workout for kids on TV and YouTube. This has been followed by families around the world who are cooped up at home and find they...
by Christine | Aug 2, 2008 | Welcome Column
Saturday morning is my favorite day of the week to write the Welcome column. Even though I’m partly retired, weekends are still officially kick-back days for me: I always sleep a little later than usual; I don’t set my sites too high accomplishment-wise;...
by Christine | Feb 3, 2019 | Welcome Column
Please forgive us. The CBA site cannot be updated due to Internet connection problems up here in the mountains. Please be patient.Rick
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...
