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...
by Christine | Jan 25, 2012 | Welcome Column
Chuck Poling’s recent article on the perils (and temptations) of pickups for acoustic instruments brought to mind one of the bizarre paradoxes in bluegrass music: How technology has insinuated itself into an art form that celebrates simplicity. At its core, bluegrass...
by Christine | Aug 14, 2013 | Welcome Column
Musicians may concentrate most of the brain power on their musical skills, but if they’re performing much, sooner or later they run into the intricacies of maintaining and keeping track of their performing schedule. Requests to play come in through a variety of...
