by Christine | Feb 18, 2011 | Welcome Column
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...
by Christine | Apr 23, 2013 | Welcome Column
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...
by Christine | Apr 15, 2011 | Welcome Column
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...
by Christine | Sep 16, 2011 | Welcome Column
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...
by Christine | May 20, 2011 | Welcome Column
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...
by Christine | Dec 16, 2011 | Welcome Column
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....
by Christine | Sep 17, 2013 | Welcome Column
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....
by Christine | Dec 21, 2012 | Welcome Column
Could this be the last CBA Welcome column I write? Is the Mayan prophesy true? Is today the last day on Earth? Peace on Earth Good Will to All! Just like a term paper needing to be written, I had procrastinated, and it was time for my CBA Welcome Column to be written....
by Christine | Jun 21, 2013 | Welcome Column
Watching the Tony Awards the night before leaving for Grass Valley made me think of all our ‘stars’ in our Bluegrass Community. I wish that I’d kept a journal on all the great moments, incredible things that had happened and the wonderful people there…these stars of...
by Christine | Aug 17, 2012 | Welcome Column
A legacy is something that we pass on to the next generation. What we’ll be remembered for. It’s something that we may never see come to fruition or know it’s impact… For several years now I have been very involved with the Kids on Stage and Kids on Bluegrass...
