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...
by Christine | Sep 17, 2016 | Welcome Column
I’m posting this late Friday night, not too long after being joyfully thrashed and soaked for five hours on a South Fork American River rafting excursion with American Whitewater Expeditions. In the aftermath tonight I’m experiencing a deeply contented buzz that comes...
by Christine | Jun 24, 2017 | Welcome Column
Harry lost Mildred last year. He’s been flying around Cedarville like some old crow looking for some chicks: most unbecoming. His sister Hilda expressed distaste for his lurid and unmentionable choices. She didn’t seem to care that he was lost...
by Christine | May 3, 2009 | Welcome Column
Ah, springtime: warm and sunny, gentle breezes, pleasant evenings. Sound like spring where you are? If it is, you’re a very fortunate individual, weather-wise. I have heard about places like that before, but I have not actually experienced that particular...
by Christine | May 13, 2016 | Welcome Column
What is it about hats and musicians? It just don’t seem right to play music with an undressed head. Mark Evans recently asked why so many bluegrass bands wear cowboy hats with the one side pressed upward. Cowboys don’t wear their hats that way, because the...
by Christine | Apr 10, 2012 | Welcome Column
I know. Bill Monroe wore a Stetson hat looking something like a cowboy hat as did Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. The Johnson Mountain Boys all wore cowboy hats. They’re traditional apparel for bluegrass bands. Of course, Monroe wore jodhpurs, too, in...
