by Bert Daniel | Aug 9, 2023 | Welcome Column
A couple of months ago, bluegrass music lost another two of its founders. On June 23, Jesse McReynolds at the age of 93 joined his brother Jim, who had passed away from thyroid cancer at age 75. Together Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys helped create bluegrass...
by Dave Berry | Jul 30, 2023 | Announcements, Coming Event(s), Regional News
Bright Star the Musical at Castro Valley Center for the Arts I was recently made aware by bluegrass promoter and proponent Maria Nadauld about the upcoming production of the bluegrass musical Bright Star put on by the Castro Valley Arts Foundation at their Castro...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 30, 2023 | Welcome Column
Free is good but in some cases you get what you pay for. As an aspirant to many instruments which I still can’t play well enough to my liking, I appreciate every opportunity to sit down with an expert and work one on one with everything that might make me a better...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 27, 2023 | Welcome Column
You and me baby, we’re ice cream and liquor The first taste’s slow and the second one’s quicker Thought we’d clash, but we hardly ever bicker You and me baby, we’re ice cream and liquor (The Reckless Electric) I like ice cream a lot. It...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 24, 2023 | Welcome Column
I enjoy cooking a lot a lot. Which is to say I enjoy cooking lots of food for lots of people. I’m told I do pretty well cooking for large groups, but that’s not always been the case. Mid way into adulthood, I’d never cooked at all. I was a wood worker and loved...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 17, 2023 | Welcome Column
There’s nothing like a good road trip. The open road of our beautiful America is something everybody should experience. In my youth I went on several epic road trips and the bug has never really left me. Now that I’m mostly retired, the open road is available more...
by Dave Berry | Jul 13, 2023 | Announcements, Coming Event(s), General News, Home Page Article
As readers surely are aware, there will be a CBA Founders Celebration remembrance event for Carl Pagter at the Fairfield Community Center on Saturday, July 22. Featured performers will be Ed Neff & Blue Lonesome, the Caleb Klauder-Reeb Willms Bluegrass Band, and a...
by Dave Berry | Jun 26, 2023 | Announcements, Coming Event(s)
The West Marin Fiddle Camp is coming up from Sunday, July 16 to Saturday, July 22. I spoke with Irena Eide, aka Rainy Eyes, who is putting together this relatively new and largely undiscovered gem of a camp with a variety of highly qualified instructors across...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 10, 2023 | Uncategorized, Welcome Column
My latest sun is sinking fast. My race is nearly run My strongest trials now are past My triumph hath begunI I wish I had brought a paint brush and knew how to use it. Sitting here watching this sunset in the mountains of Nevada, that’s the idea I get. I wish I had a...
by Dave Berry | Jun 11, 2023 | Bluegrass History, General News, Interview
Reprinted with permission from Bluegrass Today. When someone in the California Bluegrass Association(CBA) says Darby, we all know who they are talking about as she is part of a select group like Carl or Laurie who have instant first-name recognition. As former CBA...
