by Christine | Mar 5, 2020 | Welcome Column
That’s me these days. Keeping it casual. I’m playing quite a bit but only on a casual basis. What does that mean, a discerning reader might ask? My answer is I don’t really know. All I do know is that I’m playing out a bit with some different players and (this is a...
by Christine | Mar 2, 2020 | Welcome Column
(A message from Suzanne Reynolds posted by her mom, Grace.)Even when days get so hard I just want to hang my head and have a good cry….it’s still a great day with you, peeps. I want to thank everyone who has held my family up in your support and love...
by Christine | Feb 10, 2019 | Welcome Column
I’ll never swim Kern River againIt was there that I met herIt was there that I lost my best friend (Merle Haggard)Wasn’t that a great jam-fest in Bakersfield this year? One of our best ever in my opinion. Sure the elevators were a problem again this...
by Christine | Dec 30, 2012 | Welcome Column
The end of the world is apparently not coming, at least not yet (despite all that Mayan Apocalypse hype). But the end of the year is. And now many of us are looking back on the past year, vowing that the next year will be a better one. Many of our most popular new...
by Christine | Aug 26, 2011 | Welcome Column
You may ask how I can make such a bold, confident statement. I have two impeccable qualifications: I was a kid, and I have four kids. When I was a kid, I didn’t feel like I was an especially picky eater. It seemed that my few requirements wouldn’t be hard to meet....
by Christine | Dec 4, 2013 | Welcome Column
Last weekend, Cassy and I volunteered to watch our granddaughters. My daughter and son-in-law may think they tricked us into watching them, but I think everybody won in this deal. They got to have a night out with adults, and we got to enjoy the company of two...
by Christine | Aug 12, 2013 | Welcome Column
“Get that stupid banjo off of my belly!” That’s what my pregnant wife said to me in 1973 after I had carefully placed the ol’ five string with attached resonator on the well covered, heavily protected, organic womb with no view. “This is supposed to work,” I said....
by Christine | Dec 20, 2016 | Welcome Column
“Get that stupid banjo off of my belly!” That’s what my pregnant wife said to me in 1973 after I had carefully placed the ol’ five string with attached resonator on the well covered, heavily protected, organic womb with no view. “This is supposed to work,” I said....
by Christine | Nov 29, 2004 | Welcome Column
Steven and I don’t often go to the Veterans Day Bluegrass Festival at Woodland, for various reasons. Being in a tent trailer, the cold and often times damp and rainy weather can be hard on my arthritic hands and joints, often times we’ve already used up...
by Christine | Jul 21, 2009 | Welcome Column
This One’s For You Betty LaBlanc “It was the BEST show ever!” were the words I heard over and over right after the Friday and Saturday performance of the Kids on Bluegrass! I could only grin thinking that I hear those very same words after every KOB show! Why is that?...
