by Christine | Oct 10, 2010 | Welcome Column
I have this dream that someday I’ll finally retire and live the good life. I’ll ride my bike more and pick more and read more and travel more and go to more Bluegrass festivals. I’ll pretty much do all of the things I do now except that I won’t...
by Christine | Feb 9, 2016 | Welcome Column
How Crazy Does a Person Have to be… ? When I was wondering what to write about, Rick suggested I try a topic on fiddling. How crazy does a person have to be to decide to learn to play the fiddle? That’s the question. I wish I knew a bunch of fiddlers to...
by Christine | Apr 24, 2016 | Welcome Column
In a recent column written by Bruce Campbell, he asks how do you learn a new song? Now it would be really nice to get some more response, about this subject. Really, how do you learn a new song? If you happen to be a working musician and have...
by Christine | Apr 20, 2016 | Welcome Column
If you play music, you must know some songs. How did you learn them? Is the way you learn songs now different than the way you used to learn them? As a beginner, you’re hungry to learn any song that will give a practical reason for the strange things you’re learning...
by Christine | Nov 17, 2010 | Welcome Column
What’s the ideal bluegrass festival? Is it really big, or more intimate? What’s the ideal bluegrass concert? Do you prefer a lineup chock full of the biggest stars, or do you enjoy “discovering” some up-and-coming acts from just outside your local area? Or do you like...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2014 | Welcome Column
How far would you go to make your host or hostess feel comfortable, that is, not embarrassed, by a his or her culinary lapse or anomaly? Let’s say you are having dinner with your sweet mother, or your dear auntie, and she has served your favorite—meatloaf topped with...
by Christine | Aug 28, 2010 | Welcome Column
How far would you go to make your host or hostess feel comfortable, that is, not embarrassed, by a his or her culinary lapse or anomaly? Let’s say you are having dinner with your sweet mother, or your dear auntie, and she has served your favorite—meatloaf topped with...
by Christine | Mar 29, 2014 | Welcome Column
Editor’s note: It’s been our practice over the years that, in early spring, as we move toward the CBAs largest, oldest, and best-known event – – the Father’s Day Festival at grass Valley – – we bring back welcome columns that give a flavor of that...
by Christine | Jan 2, 2007 | Welcome Column
1986: Our twentieth year class reunion was coming up and after a long absence of seven years my oldest and dearest friend, Rick Cornish, calls me on the phone. It seems Rick has been keeping himself busy since the last time we talked in 1979. He is in a bluegrass...
by Christine | Mar 30, 2014 | Welcome Column
Mud fest 1995 20th anniversary was the seventh and last Father’s Day festival my father and I enjoyed together. He died the day after Thanksgiving in 1995.I was having a hard time coming to grips with his death. I submitted a story to the CBA in May of 1996...
