by Christine | Sep 22, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Ouch! It’s Fall. Sigh… Hail to thee, bluegrass fans. Many of us are crawling unwillingly back into the lives we live to live the life we love. We work a hundreds days to get four days of the joyous and worthy blessing of the music and...
by Christine | Aug 28, 2009 | Welcome Column
Thanks for taking a few minutes to read my debut Welcome Column. When Rick Cornish mentioned that he needed to fill this last available slot, I volunteered in the hope that I could hopefully contribute something moderately interesting about my life as a professional...
by Christine | Dec 13, 2017 | Welcome Column
There was a recent column by Ted Lehman about comedy in bluegrass, and it got me thinking about humor in general. At any given time on your life, you could be faced with very tough times and wonder how you can go on. Depending on your frame of mind, small problems may...
by Christine | Mar 6, 2011 | Welcome Column
With all the talk of education on the Message Board and so much about it the news, I got to reflecting on the career that has paid my bills and provided sustenance for my family these last 27 years. While during the evening and weekends, I am a fanatic of bluegrass,...
by Christine | Jan 29, 2017 | Welcome Column
With all the talk of education on the Message Board and so much about it the news, I got to reflecting on the career that has paid my bills and provided sustenance for my family these last 27 years. While during the evening and weekends, I am a fanatic of bluegrass,...
by Christine | Apr 22, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, We’ve had more friends pass from our midst lately. Allen Light was such a fine man and musician. The outpouring of emotion from his friends in the CBA not only speaks of the kind of person he was but the kind of relationships that we share in this...
by Christine | Aug 22, 2010 | Welcome Column
This has been the busiest summer I’ve had in years and there’s no sign that things will slow down until November. There have been so many opportunities to get together with the “bluegrass” family, make music, share some meals and visit. We’ve been to two big parties,...
by Christine | Jun 25, 2012 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass music fans are abuzz with the word coming out of Hollywood that a movie based on the life of Bill Monroe is in works and will appear in theaters in 2013. Following the success of other biopics of famous musicians, like Ray, Coal Miner’s Daughter, and Walk...
by Christine | Jun 3, 2012 | Welcome Column
A friend of mine once likened me to a trout: you put something bright, shiny, and new under my nose and I’ll bite. That’s the way I am with new projects—i.e., I just can’t resist the lure of testing uncharted skills and challenges. I believe that our wily...
by Christine | Jan 22, 2012 | Welcome Column
If someone were to ask me to describe my Christmas of 1984, I wouldn’t be able to recall a thing about it. As a matter of fact, I can’t remember a thing about the whole year of 1984 or 1983 and many other years for that matter. I have large blocks of time that I can’t...
