by Christine | Jan 17, 2016 | Welcome Column
The thing that basically drives El Niño is heat, hot water, and more hot water from the south Pacific, pumping moisture into the atmosphere that just happens to make landfall on the California coast. As the clouds go higher over the Sierras, the temperature gets...
by Christine | Aug 15, 2018 | Welcome Column
Soon, the members of the CBA will asked to vote for the next Board of Directors. For many, this is considered too trivial to command even a moment’s attention. Nothing could be further from the truth. An organization must have leadership to survive, and the CBA has...
by Christine | Oct 28, 2016 | Welcome Column
After spending a lot of time in a workshop recently I can tell you that whenever you get mix more than two musicians with a luthier in a room together then the subject of airline guitar damage comes up. Everybody seems to have their own favorite story about when an...
by Christine | Sep 26, 2010 | Welcome Column
I’m writing this on Wednesday before the Hobbs Grove Festival. I’m still rockin’ and reelin’ from a fun filled week at L & S Productions’ Bluegrassin’ in the Foothills. What a great line-up of bands! I sat through nearly every performance from the first Emerging...
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...
