by Christine | Dec 31, 2015 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Christmas morning December 25, 2015. I hop out of bed at 4:30 A.M. to greet this cherished day. I bundle up go outside into the chilly air retrieve the paper, prepare the coffee, mix my oatmeal and banana, work the crossword, listen to some music, and then add...
by Christine | Sep 4, 2015 | Welcome Column
“Let us go then you and I When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table….”ITEM 1: Oh What a Long Strange Trip It Has Been……….In 2008, a few weeks before the annual Father’s Day Festival Rick Cornish rang me...
by Christine | Oct 6, 2010 | Welcome Column
In addition to music, I have always enjoyed fine arts, especially paintings. I was born with a knack for drawing, but not painting. I could express myself very easily with line, but color always defeated me. Like Mozart’s contemporary, Salieri, I have the gift of...
by Christine | Jun 21, 2017 | Welcome Column
In addition to music, I have always enjoyed fine arts, especially paintings. I was born with a knack for drawing, but not painting. I could express myself very easily with line, but color always defeated me. Like Mozart’s contemporary, Salieri, I have the gift of...
by Christine | Dec 8, 2019 | Welcome Column
The fabric arts are not necessarily a topic with a lot of bluegrass content but I am an admirer so let’s talk about them. At many bluegrass festivals you will see the fabric arts in action if you look hard enough. The generators of this industry are overwhelmingly...
by Christine | Nov 16, 2011 | Welcome Column
As soon as a musician decides to make the move from just playing, to performing, an uncontrollable element is added to the equation: The audience. A more skittish, unpredictable, capricious entity you will never find. Simultaneously, this entity is vital. Without an...
by Christine | Nov 4, 2014 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where absolutely NOTHING has changed since the last time I stroked that into my Mac. I reiterate, this column IS NOT an ad for Facebook, the social media site that has more members than the majority of countries recognized by the...
by Christine | Aug 30, 2018 | Welcome Column
Boy, has the deadline for this column crept up on me fast! With the beginning of a new school year and preparing for the Kings River Bluegrass Festival, the first Sunday almost got by me. In fact, I didn’t remember it until my wife and I were driving home from San...
by Christine | Oct 30, 2016 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–Seeing as how today’s a 5th Sunday, we’ll take the old time machine out for a spin back to 2011 and find out what Marcos REALLY thinks about facts.)Boy, has the deadline for this column crept up on me fast! With the beginning of...
by Christine | Jun 24, 2008 | Welcome Column
As you might suspect, we receive a huge volume of e-mails, snail mail, calls and Message Board posts immediately following our Fathers Day Festival. Lots and lots of positives this year, a ton of excellent suggestions for future FDF’s and very negative communications...
