by Christine | Jan 3, 2020 | Welcome Column
Mr. Judd has been ailing this past week so here is a Golden Oldie.Since a new decade has begun, (my ninth) what better way than to kick it off with a bit of rousing Hee Haw humor. For those with weak stomachs you may want to scroll down until you reach the...
by Christine | Aug 4, 2018 | Welcome Column
What made 1967 such a remarkable year? Many of us thought the Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s being released in the summer of 1967 changed music forever. Some folks point to the Summer of Love in the Haight with the rich melodic sounds of San Francisco rock groups wafting over...
by Christine | Oct 22, 2010 | Welcome Column
While many of us are still catching our breath from the recent IBMA convention in Nashville, I want to let CBA folks know about another professional music conference that’s happening this weekend in Santa Clara. It’s the Folk Alliance Regional West Conference, which...
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...
