by Christine | Jun 20, 2019 | Welcome Column
A recent television documentary about Woody Guthrie, Three Chords and the Truth, included an assessment by the music historian, Bob Santelli. Talking about Woody’s development as a performer in the 1930s, Bob commented that at this time in California “Woody...
by Christine | Jan 1, 2018 | Welcome Column
Your new Board of Directors has kicked off the year with many important tasks on their plate. Valerie Cornejo, our CBA Treasurer, formed a “budget committee” made up of new and returning Directors at the October meeting and the committee presented their findings at...
by Christine | Apr 29, 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 | Oct 8, 2019 | Welcome Column
Greetings all. This will be my last President’s Message. I retire at the October Annual Membership Meeting and someone else will be selected by the Board to become President.I have been asked recently what exactly a CBA President does. The By-Laws define the role as...
by Christine | Jan 31, 2011 | Welcome Column
This is going to be a great year for California bluegrassers and for bluegrass in general! One week into the New Year (with a big bluegrass bash at my house on New Year’s Eve), scores of CBAers descended on Bakersfield for the 4th Annual Great 48 and dozens of the...
by Christine | Jan 7, 2013 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Hope everyone had a great time in Bakersfield at the CBA’s hugely successful Great 48! Welcome back to the “real” world, where a hot jam is not just a hallway away. Last time I wrote the 1st Monday Welcome column I was outlining and explaining the...
by Christine | Jul 27, 2012 | Welcome Column
I have two large portrait size photographs of two of my best friends Vern Williams and Ray Park, hanging in my living room. I look at them every morning noon and night. I love looking at these portrait size photographs that my good friend Tom Tworek took of them the...
by Christine | Jul 17, 2020 | Welcome Column
Last month I told you folks about the night my lips got polio fromdrinking too much Guinness Stout when the Vern Williams band wasplaying a gig with Rose Maddox at Raspberries nightclub in AngelsCamp California. For the last couple of days I have been dredging...
by Christine | Jun 30, 2009 | Welcome Column
I have to admit that, at least in my role as our web team leader, this is my favorite time of year. Traffic on cbaontheweb.org has been way up since June 21st, the last day of our Fathers Day Festival. While this has been pretty much the case immediately after each...
by Christine | Aug 29, 2019 | Welcome Column
New Country SongIf I could write a country song – say all red, white and’ blue – you know the stuff – ‘bout love and loss and I been done wrong too,” I’d bring my darling up on stage and light up her bright gold hair that she had doctored up...
