by Christine | Jan 4, 2006 | 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...
by Christine | Aug 29, 2015 | Welcome Column
Harrison Hamill, our young friend and fledgling banjo player, brought his friend into our camp at Grass Valley one day during the Father’s Day Festival in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s. Harrison and his brother Finnegan received free admission to The Freight and...
by Christine | Aug 31, 2020 | Welcome Column
Sit down and get comfortable while I tell you how I came to love Lady Gaga. She entered my life a few years ago, and I just don’t know what I’m going to do about her.It all has to do with some major plans of my older granddaughter, beautiful of course, and how...
by Christine | Oct 30, 2011 | Welcome Column
I DIDN’T spend my summer playing the fiddle. At the Fathers Day Festival we had our annual Welcome Writers jam at my campsite after the main stage show ended on Thursday night. I’d been pretty sick wen I arrived on Sunday and just seemed to get worse all week. By...
by Christine | Aug 5, 2015 | Welcome Column
Thursday, July 16, 2015 I “discovered” bluegrass last year via my 14 year old son, Patrick. In 2014, he joined the kid’s Academy that Darby Brandli started, thanks to the encouragement of Bruce and Scott Thompson, my husband’s cousins. I got to watch my son and his...
by Christine | Nov 16, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Today’s Bert Daniel’s day for a new Welcome column. Bert, who’s just about the most reliable of all our columnists, send the following email to me this morning…”Rick,I had a column written but forgot to...
by Christine | Nov 8, 2009 | Welcome Column
Well it’s been just over a year now that I’ve been privileged to be one of your intrepid welcome columnists and I’d like to thank all of you loyal readers for hanging in there with me. Remember, good comments (and any significant cash contributions) go directly to me....
by Christine | Jan 24, 2020 | Welcome Column
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the man who writes about all people and about all time.”- George Bernard ShawI’m not sure that my three kids and five grandkids understand my love for Deep-South foods and customs, and I know for a fact that they...
by Christine | Sep 22, 2017 | Welcome Column
Daily grist; it has been said that there is more to life than bluegrass music. Really? Who cares? JD Rhynes This story starts back when I was a teenager in Stockton California about 1954 when I got my first car, a 1936...
by Christine | Aug 23, 2012 | Welcome Column
A couple of weeks ago I was asked on the message board how I came to know Vern and Ray which gave me the idea to use the subject for a welcome message. So here we go; Way back in the late 1940s there was a disc jockey in Stockton, California by the name of Dusty...
