by Christine | Jan 21, 2007 | Welcome Column
When you wake up in the morning, stick your head out from under the covers and can see your breath, you know it’s cold. Even for the mountains, it’s very, very cold. My head went back under the covers and stayed there another forty-five minutes or so until the propane...
by Christine | Apr 27, 2016 | Welcome Column
One of the absolute joys of bluegrass is its organic nature – just people, wires and wood to make that beautiful music! How pure! How real! How authentic! We can all gather on the front porch or in the parlor and knock ‘em dead all afternoon. It’s one of the...
by Christine | Jul 14, 2020 | Welcome Column
We have been trying to downsize. After my mother died three years ago Barbara and I discovered what it is like to clean out the house of someone who saved everything. After we emptied and rehabbed Mom’s place we rented it to a woman who was something of a clean freak...
by Christine | Jan 12, 2017 | Welcome Column
We have been trying to downsize. After my mother died three years ago Barbara and I discovered what it is like to clean out the house of someone who saved everything. After we emptied and rehabbed Mom’s place we rented it to a woman who was something of a clean freak...
by Christine | Jun 28, 2008 | Welcome Column
Reading Mark Evans’ Message Board thread entitled “One Association would benefit all California Bluegrassers” and the responses to it took me back to another time in my life, a time when I served as lead staff to the Santa Clara County Committee on School District...
by Christine | Feb 8, 2017 | Welcome Column
One of the bands I’m in is breaking in a new member, and I had forgotten how much a new musician in the mix affects the band’s sound. It makes me realize that a band needs to decide if they’re going to expect a newcomer to conform to their sound, or embrace the...
by Christine | Jun 1, 2014 | Welcome Column
Typically there’s few things that’s agitates folks more than hearing a teacher complain about their summer vacation. After all, two months off of work is far better than a poke in the eye. In fact, I am down right protective of every second of that precious respite...
by Christine | Jan 15, 2010 | Welcome Column
“How many of you like classic country? Would you like to hear a song by Hank Williams (Ernest Tubb, Merle Haggard, Merle Travis, Hank Snow, George Jones)?” The voice from the stage at your favorite bluegrass festival asks the question. How many times have you heard a...
by Christine | Jul 19, 2007 | Welcome Column
Last March, CBA members Kenny and Carol House invited us, (me, Phil, plus my wife Ivona = Philvona), to their annual cioppino feed in Cloverdale. We drive through Cloverdale all the time to get to Mendocino or Upper Lake or other points north, but we’ve not...
by Christine | Oct 21, 2019 | Welcome Column
I remember the day I brought home my first guitar and excitedly opened the popular British instruction manual ‘Play In A Day’ by Bert Weedon. This classic book is still available, and its impact is summed up by the description on Amazon: “Play in a Day remains the...
