by Christine | Dec 15, 2015 | Welcome Column
Don’t you know any songs without a bunch minor chords? How about some traditional bluegrass we all know? Try to avoid the “jambusters” this time. Is there really a transition from one style of music to another? While it is true that most of us who began our music...
by Christine | Aug 20, 2018 | Welcome Column
In the early 1960s the folk music revival in the UK was gathering pace. As a college student at the time I really wasn’t sure what folk music was. We had sung so-called folk songs at school, and elderly, usually rural, people were being ‘discovered’ singing old...
by Christine | Sep 17, 2015 | Welcome Column
Last week I attended a workshop on leadership, courtesy of my employer. It’s always interesting spending a day soaking up knowledge from a room of over 100 library-types. Of all the things I learned that day, the thing that stuck with me the most happened in the last...
by Christine | Nov 10, 2020 | Welcome Column
Sometimes writing a monthly welcome column is an absolute piece of cake. I flipthe page on my wall calendar for a new month and within a few hours a topiccomes to me, and I start thinking about it, working out the start and the middleand the end, and a few days before...
by Christine | Jul 13, 2019 | Welcome Column
As we approached the tall, grey stone walls I couldn’t tell how high they were. Fifteen feet? Twenty feet? Thirty feet? However tall, they were a pole vaulters dream. Especially from the inside.Getting out of the old, dirty, stinky prison bus, I stepped out with the...
by Christine | Mar 13, 2013 | Welcome Column
Reading Ted Lehman’s excellent column on the IBMA got me thinking. At first, I was thinking about the theme of his essay, about the benefits the IBMA has for promoters. Then, as so often happens, my mind started to wander, and I remembered the times I had been to the...
by Christine | Aug 9, 2013 | Welcome Column
There’s a big old oak tree in my neighbor’s yard that I can see through my bathroom window, and there’s a song bird in the top of that tree that could swear has been on the same branch singing his little heart out for the last ten years. I know it couldn’t possibly be...
by Christine | Jun 27, 2019 | Welcome Column
It being the month of February, the month of love; I thought it might be fun to share one of my great loves: WIND.I have a love affair with many things; moments; words in life; results of actions. But one of my favorite love affairs is with wind. To...
by Christine | Mar 25, 2017 | Welcome Column
I chose to repeat this specific column, because elements, frankly are my joy spot. Lightening; Wind; Rain; Snow; Storms on the high seas with tornadoes soaring, in some crazy, excite me on a multitude of levels. They stir my soul and I can simply apply...
by Christine | Feb 12, 2012 | Welcome Column
“Never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” (John Donne) A few years ago I wrote a column here called the Eight Year Rule. The premise revolved around an observation that I had made as a kid from listening to my friends play music....
