by Christine | Nov 24, 2003 | Welcome Column
Today’s one of my two-days-per-week consulting days, and here in my Stockton office I can see steam when I exhale. That’s how cold it is. Obviously a problem with the boiler again. I’m wearing a sweater, a sweatshirt and a heavy leather jacket and yet my teeth are...
by Christine | Sep 1, 2010 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from Bruce Campbell Wednesday, September 1, 2010 If you play music often enough, with enough different people, you will discover that there are some folks who seem to bring out the best in your playing, or your singing, or both. It happens to...
by Christine | Nov 20, 2019 | Welcome Column
Playing music has been a part of my life for 50+ years, and I have been lucky enough to arrange things so I get to do it pretty darn often. Every now and then, though, there’s a lull. Usually, it’s brought on by random accidents of events and scheduling – I may...
by Christine | Mar 2, 2011 | Welcome Column
Hey, just a little more than a week to this year’s Sonoma Bluegrass and Folk Festival (March 12). This will be the 11th edition of this event, and it’s a fine kickoff to festival season. I have a lot of fine memories of this festival, and I look forward to it every...
by Christine | Sep 30, 2019 | Welcome Column
Why do we gravitate to certain kinds of music and not to others? I love bluegrass and old time music but my wife hates it. I used to listen to pop music like everybody else but these days if I have to answer a crossword puzzle entry with the letters adele or brunomars...
by Christine | Jun 17, 2019 | Welcome Column
It is over. We are exhausted. It was ALL successful. The Academy rocked. SISTER SADiE!!!! Goodnight
by Christine | Feb 24, 2010 | Welcome Column
When you find something that really makes you happy, that really turns your life around and feel very rewarding, you want to share that with people. This tendency is literally built into every evangelical faith – if you’ve seen the light, wouldn’t you want to spread...
by Christine | Sep 22, 2012 | Welcome Column
I spent the weekend watching a lot of bluegrass on stage, some from the professional side of our genre and some from the still-amateur-but-quickly-moving-up side of the industry. It was a weekend with shining examples on both ends of the professional spectrum. The...
by Christine | Dec 17, 2015 | Welcome Column
We have officially entered the part of the year that I struggle with the most. Every year I dread the holidays, for both rational and irrational reasons. It bothers me that Thanksgiving and Christmas have been reduced to nothing more than reasons to spend money. I...
by Christine | Jul 15, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: We’re running Mark’s Welcome column again because it’s so important. Nothing surpasses the importance of a smart, mature, fair-minded board of directors in ensuring that our Association continues to thrive. RC)It is time...
