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....
by Christine | Aug 14, 2008 | Welcome Column
The older I get, the harder it seems to be to get the van packed up to go to a festival. For one thing, I almost never get the job done without somehow making my back sore. Before Grass Valley I got one of my sons to come over and help me get the heavy, awkward third...
by Christine | May 30, 2017 | Welcome Column
The older I get, the harder it seems to be to get the van packed up to go to a festival. For one thing, I almost never get the job done without somehow making my back sore. Before Grass Valley I got one of my sons to come over and help me get the heavy, awkward third...
by Christine | Jul 10, 2009 | Welcome Column
There was an interesting thread on the Message Board recently about items that folks forget when they pack for the Father’s Day Festival. It made for some interesting reading, and probably everyone who read that thread saw themselves in those notes. I don’t tend to...
by Christine | Apr 12, 2018 | Welcome Column
The Carquinez Valley Boys was my very first band. It happened in the little town of Crockett, where the mighty Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers join at the Carquinez Strait to flow into San Francisco Bay.When I was a youngster, Interstate 80 was just a gleam in some...
by Christine | Jul 12, 2018 | Welcome Column
The Carquinez Valley Boys was my very first band. It happened in the little town of Crockett, where the mighty Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers join at the Carquinez Strait to flow into San Francisco Bay.When I was a youngster, Interstate 80 was just a gleam in some...
by Christine | Oct 23, 2018 | Welcome Column
FOURTH PLACE IS NOT REALLY LIKE KISSING YOUR SISTER!Moving the Finish LineWinning isn’t everythingsaid one who’d never won.I’ll get me up and get on thereas soon as sleep is done.I’ll show you what I’m made offor you to judge yourself.Blue...
by Christine | Apr 8, 2019 | Welcome Column
Frank Solivan has been a mainstay in Bluegrass for most of the twenty first century, and a lot of that can be attributed to his desire for new achievements and sounds. After a satisfying career working for Country Current, Solivan’s band Dirty Kitchen has been through...
