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...
by Christine | Jul 12, 2009 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from Cliff Compton Sunday, July 12, 2009 Mona made me a cake. From scratch. In the oven of her R.V. enough chocolate to send a womans endorphins into a dream state. Enough chocolate to make a bitter man sweet. Just because it was my birthday and...
by Christine | Sep 15, 2008 | Welcome Column
Hey, folks. Happy Monday! I’m cramming like a college student this week, trying to fin enough hours in the day to release your Bluegrass Breakdown paper to the printer before I go to Plymouth. (Looks like we’re getting up there on Thursday, so “someone” please save...
by Christine | Dec 28, 2009 | Welcome Column
I’ve been chewing on this since October, trying to decide if I should write about it, and if so, how I should write about it. My son Peter, my youngest and the one who’s served as a sounding board for me since he learned to talk…..and listen…..helped me decide. Let me...
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...
