by Christine | Jun 20, 2010 | Welcome Column
It is a mixed blessing writing this column, especially during Festival week. Like many of the columnists I wait until the last minute, which doesn’t really work well at the FDF because as most of you know the PRIORITY during FDF is jamming and listening to...
by Christine | Feb 7, 2012 | Welcome Column
Going to the Dogs I know that some of you have heard that we are going to allow dogs at the Father’s Day Festival for the first time in about two decades. I know because I have heard from a few members who are shocked, aghast and simply horrified that we are going to...
by Christine | Feb 1, 2016 | Welcome Column
I am writing this column January 1 and even though you will read this in February I am focusing on a Happy New Year message. The CBA is almost completely on line with tickets to events and donations. I was just perusing what events are available to all of...
by Christine | Feb 6, 2017 | Welcome Column
Concerts, festival planning, new kid jams, Music Camp and Academy registration opening. We are busy here at CBA Headquarters. Administratively we are reviewing and updating the ByLaws but that is not as much fun as live music. Ted Kuster, our new...
by Christine | Jan 26, 2009 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, We fans of West Coast bluegrass suffered a loss this weekend. Ken Orrick of Lost Highway passed away. I think one would be hard pressed to find any among our ranks who has not enjoyed Lost Highway’s music over the years. They were special to many, with...
by Christine | Jan 28, 2011 | Welcome Column
We’ve got it so lucky here in northern California this time of year! In other parts of the country, live bluegrass becomes scarcer in the winter months but here in California, bluegrass music is as abundant and alive as the thick, deep green winter grasses on the...
by Christine | Feb 6, 2011 | Welcome Column
February can be bleak in the Central Valley. We’ve seen weeks on end where the sky is flat and gray; the earth, far off in the distance, is the same dull, leaden hue. Land and sky form an ashen wall. The cold that rolls down from the mountains and rests on our...
by Christine | Feb 2, 2010 | Welcome Column
We are well into our 35th year as an organization and what a ride it has been! I spent the evening last night with CBA member #1, Carl Pagter, and he is still going as strong as the organization he co-founded so many years ago. Many of our other members have left us...
by Christine | Feb 18, 2016 | Welcome Column
Lately I’ve been kind of obsessed with change and implementing positive change in my life. Many good things have come out of that obsession – I am regularly churning out new art pieces for my Art Abandonment passion, my writing has improved and I’m constantly...
by Christine | Jun 4, 2014 | Welcome Column
James Brown said “It’s a man’s world”. The same might be said about early bluegrass. Yes, there was Hazel DIckens (famously and importantly), but mostly, it was a male-dominated genre. In my first year of college, one of the male professors said “I am a feminist”, and...
