by Christine | Sep 7, 2011 | Welcome Column
I don’t know if you noticed, but we have a wide variety of contributing writers who provide the daily Welcome Message. Some are intermittent; some provide a column monthly, some weekly. It’s the first thing you see when you go to the CBA Website, and if we have done...
by Christine | Nov 13, 2008 | Welcome Column
Today?s Welcome column from George Martin Thursday, November 13, 2008 When my copy of Banjo Newsletter arrived recently I was mildly surprised to see on the cover, ?35th Anniversary Issue? proudly emblazoned in a starburst-like headline. Wow. I really am getting old....
by Christine | Jul 29, 2017 | Welcome Column
One of the things I have become used to about living where I live is that as soon as people discover you live on an Island in the Caribbean they instantly assume your life must be perfect. I’m not sure why, because the opposite didn’t happen. When I lived in the...
by Christine | Nov 27, 2015 | Welcome Column
One of the things I have become used to about living where I live is that as soon as people discover you live on an Island in the Caribbean they instantly assume your life must be perfect. I’m not sure why, because the opposite didn’t happen. When I lived in the...
by Christine | Nov 23, 2010 | Welcome Column
As I write my Welcome column we’re in the midst of what they call up here in the mountains a ‘winter storm watch’. Really, there’s not much to see….endless rain, tree-bending wind and, in my case, three dogs with cabin fever. It’s only November and they’ve already got...
by Christine | Nov 27, 2017 | Welcome Column
We recently said farewell to our CBA Chairperson of the Board, Tim Edes, and that’s had me thinking a lot about him. During my four-plus decades in bluegrass, I never made a better friend than Tim. Here’s a story I’ve told many times about my pal and...
by Christine | Oct 24, 2009 | Welcome Column
In my late twenties I stumbled, literally by accident, onto bluegrass music, when, from the instant I heard Jake Quisennberry and the Lost Ramblers sing a straight-ahead, hard-driving version of ‘Little Maggie’ at a bluegrass festival my pal John Bunch and I...
by Christine | Jul 15, 2004 | Welcome Column
Saturday morning at Hollister’s Good Old Fashioned Festival I had the great fortune of wandering by the camper of Tim and Sue Edes just as they were sitting down to breakfast….and the even greater fortune of being told Tim’d cooked too much. Over eggs easy-over, fried...
by Christine | Mar 31, 2015 | Welcome Column
I AM NOT…REPEAT…NOT A LAZY PERSON March 31, 2015 I’m at home, out of the hospital, feeling well and also, very grateful to my wife, Lynn, for getting me out of the jam I was in, as well as to the many, many, many friends who showed their concern and support. Several...
by Christine | May 30, 2008 | Welcome Column
Well, not really. I mean, unless I did or said something. In which case, I do apologize. Sincerely. No, my welcome today is not about making a public apology to the visitors of cbaontheweb.org, (though I’ve done that a few times in the past eight years, always for an...
