by Christine | Apr 28, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Starting to look a lot like bluegrass season. Coming up this weekend there are a couple of events that play into that perception. On May 3rd, all day there will be a civic event in the town of Windsor that has morphed into a one day bluegrass festival....
by Christine | May 3, 2011 | Welcome Column
My favorite festival of the year is getting closer. The Father’s Day Festival in Grass Valley was where it all began for our family in the mid 80’s. I have close friends who attended from the beginning but we didn’t get there until the 9th or 10th and were immediately...
by Christine | May 4, 2015 | Welcome Column
This April and May are busier than usual at CBA Headquarters. We are celebrating 40 years with a bang and a leap into the electronic world. We have come a long way since the first mimeographed Bluegrass Breakdown and first festival four decades ago. The new...
by Christine | May 4, 2010 | Welcome Column
We began attending the Father’s Day Festival in the mid 80’s and by 1989 or 1990 we met a contingent of Alaskan bluegrassers who were also attending the festival. Grass Plus was on a western tour after winning (as I recall) a Pizza Parlor Bluegrass contest and were on...
by Christine | May 18, 2010 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where, for the time being anyway, everything is eye-poppingly green. Far and away the loveliest season up here in the Mother Lode. The now 13-member strong board of directors met on Saturday and, as you’d expect, most of our agenda...
by Christine | Dec 18, 2019 | Welcome Column
Playing music is lots of fun. This is not a news flash for anyone out that plays music. It is fun, at every level. More so, I think, than golf. Nobody’s keeping score in music. Nobody’s going to beat you at the game of music. It’s not a game – it’s a form of...
by Christine | Nov 1, 2016 | Welcome Column
This month’s column is brought to you courtesy of a three day jam class in the Mount Airy and Pilot Mountain area of North Carolina. Mount Airy is the birth place of Andy Griffith and where he grew up. It is believed to be the basis for the Andy Griffith Show and...
by Christine | Jan 22, 2017 | Welcome Column
Police arrived at the home of Jerry and Janice Walker after a neighbor reported hearing a disturbance in the middle of the night. Discovered lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen was Mrs. Janice Walker, age 26. Police estimated that she’d been dead for less than one...
by Christine | May 2, 2019 | Welcome Column
Next Tuesday is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Monroe. Back in 1996 I wrote this account of my meeting with Big Mon, which took place while I was in high school and just starting to puzzle out my first tune on the mandolin. It appeared in the Bluegrass...
by Christine | Feb 16, 2018 | Welcome Column
Back in 1996 I wrote this account of my meeting with Big Mon, which took place while I was in high school and just starting to puzzle out my first tune on the mandolin. It appeared in the Bluegrass Breakdown, but I presume most of those who read it back then have...
