by Christine | Jun 7, 2017 | Welcome Column
Just got the word – there’s no new Welcome Messages during the week leading up to the Father’s Day Festival. This is because so much of the hoi polloi of the CBA are bugging out to Grass Valley during the week. There’s nothing wrong with this practice – I...
by Christine | Jul 18, 2011 | Welcome Column
A while back my wife, Lynn, posted on the Message Board that “Rick is feeling better”. I’d had two solid days without joint and muscle pain attacks (the first time in six weeks) and we both figured we were over the hump. And there was an out-pouring of many of my...
by Christine | Nov 26, 2018 | Welcome Column
There is something very ambivalent about my attitude towards “culture” and “art”. I always gravitate towards it and somehow cannot imagine my life without it, and the closest I get to experiencing pure bliss is in fleeting moments when music (or any other artistic...
by Christine | Jun 27, 2018 | Welcome Column
What do our senses do for us? Simply put, they detect changes and report them to us. It’s vital for survival – a glimpse of a threat, the sound of pending danger, the smell of smoke, or a sudden increase or decrease in temperature. Happily, the same senses...
by Christine | Jan 20, 2014 | Welcome Column
Today’s national holiday is a very special day with an anniversary twist this year. Some of us baby boomers can look back fifty years to a time when Martin Luther King, Jr. was in his heyday. This past summer we remembered the March on Washington and King’s famous “I...
by Christine | Jan 6, 2014 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Happy New Year to you and your kin. Thanks for joining us on the CBA’s glorious website. I hope 2014 will find each and every one of you who appreciates this major feat of bluegrass/old time celebration and communication giving credit to the poobah of...
by Christine | Oct 23, 2012 | Welcome Column
In the beginning…way, way back…we created a feature at the bottom of the right hand column of the cbaontheweb.org splash page called “Band News”. Though that name stuck for at least a couple of years, it quickly became clear that the term ‘band news’ was not broad...
by Christine | Aug 7, 2008 | Welcome Column
I had watched, for the umpteenth time, a dreadful commercial that is being shown on TV ad nauseam, when I got to thinking about the way in which memory is often tied to that which is off-kilter, offensive, or just plain wrong. I consider the ad in question to be the...
by Christine | Apr 29, 2017 | Welcome Column
I had watched, for the umpteenth time, a dreadful commercial that is being shown on TV ad nauseam, when I got to thinking about the way in which memory is often tied to that which is off-kilter, offensive, or just plain wrong. I consider the ad in question to be the...
by Christine | Sep 5, 2013 | Welcome Column
Tin ears, autumn equinox, Oktoberfest and writer’s block Starting with the latter, some months I find it very difficult to come up with a hook or topic for my monthly column. I can usually write something fairly easily to amuse myself but I take the responsibility of...
