by Christine | Dec 31, 2013 | Welcome Column
Happy New Year! We hope to see many of you at the Great 48 in Bakersfield the second weekend of 2014. It is mid-December now (and I am late with the deadline for the Breakdown) and I know hotel reservations are moving briskly. New this year will be a Teen Jam Suite....
by Christine | Jan 4, 2016 | Welcome Column
We are heading into another busy CBA year with more events scheduled than ever before! We have some new officers and coordinators in our volunteer stable who are scheduling events in their home areas.The first event to kick off 2016 is, of course, our big...
by Christine | Jan 13, 2011 | Welcome Column
Happy New Year 2011! I predict this year will be a good one for the CBA and all you music lovers out there. I have a list of New Year’s resolutions for the Association and they all include you to ensure success. 1. Increase our membership to 3500 members this year and...
by Christine | Jan 19, 2010 | Welcome Column
I celebrated my sixty-second birthday yesterday and had a wonderful day. Hung out with Lynn and the pack, dry and toasty inside while copious amounts of much needed rain fell outside. And Lynn had a masseuse come by the house in the morning for a birthday massage....
by Christine | Mar 24, 2011 | Welcome Column
The onliest thang I miss about not working is the pranks and jokes I used to pull on my fellow ‘fitters that I used to work with. We used to pull all sorts of jokes on each other, and it was a ton of fun. It really was a fun way to make a living back then. Plus,...
by Christine | Apr 14, 2020 | Welcome Column
The onliest thang I miss about not working is the pranks and jokes I used to pull on my fellow ‘fitters that I used to work with. We used to pull all sorts of jokes on each other, and it was a ton of fun. It really was a fun way to make a living back then. Plus,...
by Christine | Jul 20, 2014 | Welcome Column
Folks, we’re beginning to sound like a PBS fundraiser by exhortation, brow beating, begging, challenging, demanding, asking, and bribing you to contribute to the JD Rhynes Cookbook project. All I have to say is just go do it!. For those of you that might not be aware...
by Christine | Jul 24, 2014 | Welcome Column
Howdy Howdy Howdy! Try as I might,for the life of me I could not dredge up a story of my past musical adventures for the welcome column today. Like a lot of other folks in the CBA. I have been concentrating on our kickstart campaign for the last month. It has consumed...
by Christine | Jan 14, 2019 | Welcome Column
The past ten to fifteen years of bluegrass have clearly created a shift in what is expected and what is acceptable. I remember one of my first experiences seeing Cadillac Sky when IBMA was still in Nashville. People were pissed. Whether it be the shirtless display of...
by Christine | Dec 27, 2015 | Welcome Column
I’ll be reminiscing a little this morning. Back in 2011, we were at the Susanville Bluegrass Festival and I was out walking around, guitar in hand, looking for a jam. I ran into Lou McClenahan who led me over to a jam where my ears picked up the strains of an old Hank...
