Harmony Road

Well welcome and howdy to all you travelers out on Harmony Road. So many festivals happening now. Physically, I can’t do them all. I have to pace myself just to go to the festivals that I’m committed to. So I’ve been taking care of things like the annual...

Harmony Road

Well, I haven’t ventured out much on Harmony Road lately. I missed the CBA Spring Camp Out. A bad cold kept me home and out of the rain. I once had a cold and then went to the Parkfield Festival and ended up in the ER and had came down with Pnuemonia so, I’m not as...

HARMONY ROAD – October 19, 2012

As I sit down to write this column I have just discovered that our good friend and former Bluegrass Breakdown Editor, Suzanne Dennison has passed. She was my first CBA Woman friend and I really liked her. We would talk about Bluegrass Music and the musicians we liked....

HARMONY ROAD 4

Parties, Coffee Houses, House Concerts, Grasstowne, Brookdale Bluegrass Festival, Well today is Ralph Hendricks birthday. Our Bluegrass Community is a much better place because he was born today. Happy Birthday Ralph! I’ve been busy on Harmony Road, attending...

Greetings from the Boondocks

One thing about living in a big town like San Francisco is that you get used to feeling like you’re in the middle of things. People are lined up across the country. the story goes, waiting for their turn to get into San Francisco and help jack up the rents a little...

Harmony Road 6

The backbone of the Mighty Avalanche Choir, Dale and Marilyn Barcellos performed at The Ugly Mug recently. We have been friends ever since we camped next to each other at Strawberry. They wore headphones while they played their instruments and sang. The headphones...

Harmony Road 7

I have a very wonderful friend, Virginia Varni. She is from Lubbock, Texas and is 88 and sharp as a tack. She plays guitar, piano and dulcimer and writes poetry. We’ve been writing songs together. She liked my story about Tom Tworek and gave this poem to me for...

Harmony Road 7 TOM’S JACKET

That’s a good looking jacket someone said to me I said Thank you and I think about Tom’s Jacket and how it came to me. I’d see Tom Tworek and the campfire light shining on the faces of friends and hear bluegrass music being played at festivals. Tom would play “Gold...

Harmony Road Christmas

It is 15 days, 19 hours, 41 minutes, 12 seconds until 2012 I have been traveling out on Harmony Road and am now enjoying the light and warmth and peace of my home with my family and friends. I wish the same peaceful light and warmth to you and your friends and family....

HARMONY ROAD–“Hear The Whippoorwill’s Cry”

The sunlight shines through the trees and leaves and onto the water of the swamp as the boat glides through it and the music plays and it’s such heart stirring music. Another stroke of the oar and a turn in the swamp and the colors are so brilliant. Then you hear it....