by Christine | Dec 10, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good Monday morning from Whiskey Creek, where, I’m ashamed to admit, the gutters only got cleaned out yesterday. This is after several strong storms have dropped countless inches of rain on our little mountain home. I hang my head in disgrace. But let me just...
by Christine | Nov 18, 2011 | Welcome Column
I’m happy to report that here’s plenty of good music happening all over the State of California on Harmony Road. My friend Steve Key, of Songwriters at Play.com produces concerts and events for Songwriters and is looking for more Bluegrass Musicians at his...
by Christine | Dec 11, 2020 | Welcome Column
When I was a girl, one of my favorite lakes to fish was Howard Prairie. The cool-still waters seemed to greet the cool-green grasses, welcoming every blade as they did their best to feed the dreams of every boy and girl, every man and woman, who showed up with a...
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...
