by Christine | May 22, 2020 | Welcome Column
This quarantine has played havoc with musicians, students of music, and audiences everywhere. However, the music community has come together in remarkable ways to provide concerts, classes, music camps, and other musical experiences online. But, I hear from way...
by Christine | Dec 19, 2012 | Welcome Column
In case you didn’t know, on your computer keyboard (at least for PCs), the F5 button means “refresh” when you’re using a browser to view the internet. It can be helpful if a page seems to hang, or there’s something odd about the site you’re on. Some sites have...
by Christine | May 21, 2012 | Welcome Column
I always feel a little funny when I try to introduce a less familiar tune to a jam session. Maybe the session has been going along just fine. We’re playing the old jam “war horses”. They never get old no matter how many times we play them. But a good...
by Christine | Sep 19, 2016 | Welcome Column
Here’s one of my favorite columns from about four years ago:Just Like YouI always feel a little funny when I try to introduce a less familiar tune to a jam session. Maybe the session has been going along just fine. We’re playing the old jam “war...
by Christine | Jun 23, 2018 | Welcome Column
I actually had another write almost completed when I got a surprising phone call tonight. A call from a friend of 30+ years; a call from a friend who possesses almost everything one would dream to have: True loves, like seeds of glory-filled stories...
by Christine | Jul 3, 2016 | Welcome Column
And a Happy July the 3rd to everybody! I’m sort of in-betwixt and in-between Independence Days. Oh, GOOGLE it! I don’t have time for a history lesson today. That’s what the web is for, isn’t it. Searching for and finding information to share...
by Christine | Feb 22, 2004 | Welcome Column
Today we’ve got a guest column from Christian Ward, eleven year of old fiddling son of Lost Highway’s Eric Uglum. Christian recently sent in a “Hooked on Bluegrass” story and we were so taken by it that we couldn’t resist asking him what he thought would happen if...
by Christine | Nov 24, 2018 | Welcome Column
Ever wonder why the rainFalls down from the skies?Or, why a lifetime lasts a month,For exotic butterflies?Have you thought for just a bit,Why trees have leaves of green?Or why you stop to marvelAt a snowy winter’s scene?Did you know that eyes of blue,See the same as...
by Christine | Nov 19, 2016 | Welcome Column
Old time musicians have the uncanny ability to make old music feel fresh again. They revitalize songs from long ago and create sounds that appeal to an audiences’ sense of familiarity and nostalgia. Fiddle player Kalia Yeagle is such a...
by Christine | Apr 11, 2017 | Welcome Column
Just a few cool days ago, I had the privilege of one of the best seats in an Arizona ballpark to share some time with the 2017 Chicago White Sox as they readied for a new year in major league baseball. To be clear, I have not been to Chicago, am a...
