by Christine | Aug 11, 2011 | Welcome Column
Wednesday afternoon and we are still pondering if we can get down to Hollister for any part of the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival, my second favorite after Grass Valley. We have to baby-sit until 5:30 p.m. on Friday, so we need to decide if it’s worth it to...
by Christine | May 25, 2018 | Welcome Column
When I was a kid, we spent Memorial Day tending the graves of friends and relatives. We picked flowers from my aunt’s garden—gladioli, asters, zinnias, and fragrant little pink sweet peas—and gathered them up with ribbons into bouquets and put them in mason jars...
by Christine | Oct 31, 2019 | Welcome Column
One of the first gigs I ever played (if playing free counts as a gig) was for the Red Cross chapter in the little town of Crockett, where I grew up. The chapter had some kind of volunteer relationship with the Napa State Hospital and they sent us up there to play a...
by Christine | Jun 27, 2010 | Welcome Column
On Sunday, June 13, I climbed behind the wheel of my car and headed for Grass Valley; crazy thoughts spinning through my brain; my mind was flipping back and forth between anticipation and apprehension. My first Father’s Day Festival at Grass Valley was filling my...
by Christine | Jan 26, 2017 | Welcome Column
“A wise man once said…nothing. ” JD Rhynes From 1978 to 1980 there was a small bluegrass Festival that was held at the Ghost Mountain Ranch Campground at Pollock Pines California, that featured California...
by Christine | May 22, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear Bluegrass family. It’s times like this that I am so glad that I have such an extended family, such as you all. I dont know how I would have ever made it this far down life’s road, without your support and love during trying times that we all have to...
by Christine | Jun 26, 2007 | Welcome Column
Images swirl together and tumble on top of each other like—well– like little kids—before they become self-conscious and reflect the idea that showing enthusiasm for something is uncool. The images crowd into each other and jostle for first place in my memories....
by Christine | Oct 8, 2020 | Welcome Column
The year was 1994, and if I remember right it was January or February. My friend Fred Morrison was putting on a BIG indoor Bluegrass Festival at a posh hotel in San Mateo Calif. . The whole Bluegrass community was abuzz over the bands that were hired to play it, and...
by Christine | May 22, 2014 | Welcome Column
I miss the stories that Vern used to tell about when he was playing music with Ray Park, and their travels on the road. I kick myself for not setting down with a tape recorder and proper chronicling their adventures of the road over the years that they played...
by Christine | May 18, 2019 | Welcome Column
(From a while back)We are all missing the late Ralph Stanley now since his recent passing. Icons like that can never be replaced but at least he left us a great body of music with which to move forward. Stanley Brothers tunes were popular at our jam here yesterday but...
