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...
by Christine | May 21, 2011 | Welcome Column
As I packed up my life this month, to move onto a different and exciting phase (graduate school), I had to make some tough choices on what went into storage, and what didn’t; what got moved to my new home right away, and was included in that list of “essentials” that...
by Christine | Jan 23, 2010 | Welcome Column
For some reason hunger has been on my mind lately. Before I go any further, I should make a disclaimer, I haven’t been hungry lately. In fact, I have rarely been more than moderately hungry at times throughout my life. I should be hungry, seeing as how I am still on...
by Christine | Oct 24, 2017 | Welcome Column
WHY I AM NOT A SURGEONI visit my friend Hadleywho is opening up somefellow on a clean table. Sheremoves objects of differentshades and plinks theminto stainless steel cups.She dictates Latin namesfor clinicians in whitewho nod, perilously near to fainting. ...
by Christine | Apr 25, 2020 | Welcome Column
Any golfer who is reading this knows what a Mulligan is. Wikipedia defines is as “a second chance to perform an action, usually after the first chance went wrong through bad luck or a blunder.” I would like a Mulligan for all of last month please! Life can be going...
by Christine | Feb 6, 2013 | Welcome Column
Like just about every non-profit on this big blue marble, the California Bluegrass Association is always hungry for more members. We can never rest in trying to simultaneously please our current membership while trying to attract new members. We’ve wracked our aging...
