by Christine | Apr 3, 2008 | Welcome Column
In 1972, I was home from college visiting my parents when we turned on the evening news. There was a segment of “On the Road” with Charles Kuralt, always one of our favorite features of the broadcast. Kuralt’s brief photojournal essays brought to the American public...
by Christine | Dec 17, 2017 | Welcome Column
Some of you should know by now that we have a new Music Camp Liaison, Maggie Sokolik. Maggie is an excellent author and great musician and in the spirit of Music Camp-themed Welcome articles that we often run leading up to the festival, here’s one from...
by Christine | Jan 7, 2018 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–Blink your eyes. I dare you. That’s about how long an entire bluegrass season takes to play out. Or in this case, nine years. We’re running President Darby’s fall of 2009 monthly column just to offer a sense of how...
by Christine | Oct 2, 2011 | Welcome Column
It feels like I’ve been writing about the Kings River Bluegrass Festival for half a year, and that might just be accurate—i.e., two Welcome Columns and two Breakdown articles since February. I can’t let this festival get too far behind us however without publicly...
by Christine | Jan 6, 2011 | Welcome Column
It’s fitting that the New Year is symbolized by the image of a baby: hopeful, unblemished, and full of promise. And it’s equally fitting that the departing year is depicted as a withered old man: tired, weary, and ready for a rest. In any given year, we can pretty...
by Christine | Mar 4, 2015 | Welcome Column
Live music is, of course, first and foremost an aural experience. The chance to hear beautiful music played by fine musicians is the main reason we go to musical events. We can experience great music through recorded media, too, but we know that the excitement of a...
by Christine | Sep 14, 2016 | Welcome Column
Sometimes, It’s hard to find a public venue for bluegrass jams. Many establishments don’t see them as much of draw, and don’t want to risk alienating clients who don’t like bluegrass music. To be fair, the quality of the music in a jam can be wildly variable, so the...
by Christine | Feb 12, 2020 | Welcome Column
Live music is, of course, first and foremost an aural experience. The chance to hear beautiful music played by fine musicians is the main reason we go to musical events. We can experience great music through recorded media, too, but we know that the excitement of a...
by Christine | Sep 20, 2020 | Welcome Column
If I only had a crystal banjo…I could make dozens of pennies telling the futures of everyone and everything bluegrass. Folks would flock to me from miles around to have their for-tunes told (or sung), I would be able to make money on the stock market, or maybe at...
by Christine | Aug 2, 2020 | Welcome Column
This morning Lynn asked me if I still ha dreams about the festival at Grass Valley. Of course, I said, in fact last night I dreamed about the time I lost my fiddle on the way to the Fathers Day Bluegrass Festival…I was in no particular hurry to make the three...
