by Christine | May 9, 2019 | Welcome Column
Here at Free Range Fridays we feel like we’re providing a community service by keeping alive San Francisco’s tradition of live music in casual settings. We really appreciate you many loyal fans who come to our showcases. The enthusiasm and respect that you show for...
by Christine | Jun 29, 2019 | Welcome Column
Back in August the San Francisco Chronicle did a nice Sunday piece on the about-to-open brand new Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. This past Sunday the Datebook section had a letter from Gallivan Burwell of New Orleans, the very first musician to play the...
by Christine | Nov 12, 2015 | Welcome Column
Back in August of 2009 the San Francisco Chronicle did a nice Sunday piece on the about-to-open brand new Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. This past Sunday the Datebook section had a letter from Gallivan Burwell of New Orleans, the very first musician to...
by Christine | Feb 3, 2018 | Welcome Column
Back in August of 2009 the San Francisco Chronicle did a nice Sunday piece on the about-to-open brand new Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. This past Sunday the Datebook section had a letter from Gallivan Burwell of New Orleans, the very first musician to...
by Christine | Oct 8, 2009 | Welcome Column
Back in August the San Francisco Chronicle did a nice Sunday piece on the about-to-open brand new Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. This past Sunday the Datebook section had a letter from Gallivan Burwell of New Orleans, the very first musician to play the...
by Christine | Jul 12, 2014 | Welcome Column
The 39th CBA Fathers’ Day Festival is over. It is gone. It is no more. It has been written in the bluegrass history book. Like Abraham Lincoln, the 39th FDF belongs to the ages. However, the memories live on. Returning to this festival in the time machine that I...
by Christine | Apr 12, 2014 | Welcome Column
Melody Player likes acoustic guitars. Wait, that’s not quite correct, because her feelings transcend like and find themselves in the love category; that category which contains many different kinds of love. Love, in this case, is more than just a four letter word....
by Christine | Jul 24, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where it’s been hot enough to seriously warrant a review and possible redefinition of the term ‘serve at room temperature’; where, by a little before four in the afternoon yesterday, the usual time for the household’s twenty minute...
by Christine | Dec 24, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: At 6:30 a.m. this morning I received an email from the old man hisself saying that he’d written his column for the fourth Thursday, as usual, but when he tried to send it to me it vanished into that “cyber-stuff.” He...
by Christine | Oct 26, 2014 | Welcome Column
It’s been several years now since I attended my first CBA Camp-Out. It has turned out to be a life changing experience. It was there that I met some folks who have become some of my dearest friends. Some of the first people that greeted me back then were the first to...
