by Christine | Oct 6, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–We’re reaching back five years today for a piece by Jean Ramos written just after the 2010 Plymouth festival. A long-time Welcome writer, Jean has a way of capturing the spirit and ambiance of bluegrass get-togthers. If you...
by Christine | Sep 22, 2011 | Welcome Column
As life has led me down the road following the pure passion of my life, Bluegrass music, there’s been a few embarrasing moments. Some intentional, but most of ’em pure happenstance. A lot of ’em my fault, and some of ’em involving friends in...
by Christine | Feb 3, 2020 | Welcome Column
The role of emcee at a bluegrass festival is often underestimated as crucial cog keeping the event rolling along while providing support for the vendors, information for the fans, and discipline for the performers. It’s a difficult task which requires...
by Christine | Aug 14, 2011 | Welcome Column
You’ve all seen it happen. You’re at that event you’ve been looking forward to for months. The music has been so magical this night that nobody in the audience wants it to end. You can just feel it. The applause has been thundering after every piece...
by Christine | Dec 11, 2009 | Welcome Column
It’s four o-clock in the morning, and I’m wondering what I’m doing up. Had a dream about losing a sales account that I don’t even have. Laying in bed thinking about slow sales in a down economy. But I don’t like to dwell in that world. Bad times come and go. Gotta...
by Christine | Apr 28, 2017 | Welcome Column
Posted in ’09It’s four o-clock in the morning, and I’m wondering what I’m doing up. Had a dream about losing a sales account that I don’t even have. Laying in bed thinking about slow sales in a down economy.But I don’t like to dwell in that world. Bad times come...
by Christine | Aug 10, 2010 | Welcome Column
Hello from Whiskey Creek. The birds are chirping, the weather is way, way mellow for Jamestown this time of year and the new llama, we’re calling her Olive this week, seems to have found her niche. All is right our little slice of heaven. I cannot, however, say the...
by Christine | Aug 10, 2010 | Welcome Column
Hello from Whiskey Creek. The birds are chirping, the weather is way, way mellow for Jamestown this time of year and the new llama, we’re calling her Olive this week, seems to have found her niche. All is right our little slice of heaven. I cannot, however, say the...
by Christine | Oct 29, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where entropy, the third law of thermodynamics, which describes the steady, unrelenting creep of all systems in nature from order to disorder and, ultimately, chaos, is the unchallenged ruler of all it surveys. The light fixture in our...
by Christine | Jun 19, 2012 | Welcome Column
I’m tired of hearing people say, “It’s all about the music.” That phrase, meant to excuse bluegrass music for the often static, not to say boring, way in which many performances of bluegrass music present themselves just doesn’t hold water. In order...
