by Christine | Jan 11, 2018 | Welcome Column
In just eight short years the GREAT 48 Jam in Bakersfield has become our largest event after the Fathers Day Festival. The jam starts today, Thursday, and runs through the weekend, and brings equal numbers (in the hundreds) of Southern California and Northern...
by Christine | Jul 11, 2016 | Welcome Column
With the death of Ralph Stanley still leaving the entire bluegrass community in mourning, the time was perfect for the new Junior Sisk and Rambler Choice album “Poor Boys Pleasure”. Since bursting onto the scene with Wyatt Rice, Junior Sisk has been a pillar of the...
by Christine | Jun 30, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Here we are, almost in July. If the rest of festival season is as good as Father’s Day Festival was we’ll be in great shape. Of course things have been rearranged a bit this year, with NCBS’s Good Old Fashioned Festival moving to August, but there are...
by Christine | Jun 25, 2013 | Welcome Column
Fathers Day It was another great one! The 38th Annual Father’s Day Festival had perfect weather, a huge attendance including a record number of children, a stellar lineup, preceded by a full and successful Music Camp, a NEW Bluegrass Camp for Kids, new participants on...
by Christine | Jul 13, 2010 | Welcome Column
Hello from Whiskey Creek. It’s a mere 96 degrees in Jamestown right now, but we’re promised triple digits starting Wednesday. Willie, the youngest of the lab pack, has taken to lying down in one of our fountains. His look of contentment once he’s in just the right...
by Christine | Jun 1, 2010 | Welcome Column
I am dreaming of Grass Valley and know that everything I love about the festival will be bigger and grander than ever this year. The late spring rains will have the Scotch Broom and wild Sweet Peas blooming more extravagantly than in past years. The late winter snow...
by Christine | Jun 5, 2017 | Welcome Column
This is my favorite column of the year, a welcome to the Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival Week at Grass Valley. We have a jam-packed week planned for all of you. The four-day CBA Music Camp kicks off the week. The Academy begins a four-day run on Wednesday (SOLD OUT),...
by Christine | Oct 8, 2018 | Welcome Column
The last seven years of bluegrass have seen a lot of changes in regards to the biggest bands and the most celebrated instrumentalists and vocalists (more on that later), but one of the biggest constants throughout the scene has been the gentle twang of Junior Sisk and...
by Christine | Mar 12, 2004 | Welcome Column
Doing the right thing isn’t always easy, but doing it after you’ve done something really wrong can be downright difficult. And complicated. I learned that lesson the hard way during a long, hot summer in my twelfth year. How hot was it? I remember walking to school...
by Christine | Nov 11, 2011 | Welcome Column
Just About Four Seconds FlatApril 1970(Note: Just About Four Seconds Flat is a story I wrote while in graduate school. All of the other stories in this collection are mostly autobiographical; this one is clearly not. The reader is warned that both...
