by Christine | Jan 21, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, I noticed a query about CBA Music Camp on the message board. I imagine that other compulsive Music Camp lovers like myself are wondering about who’s teaching and when we can sign up. Here’s exactly what Music Camp poobah Ingrid Noyes has to say:...
by Christine | Apr 26, 2019 | Welcome Column
I decided to recycle this article from the Breakdown that I wrote over a year ago, updated for this year. CBA Summer Music Camp is coming up, and there are still some spaces left, so if you haven’t committed yet. Now is the time. We have space especially...
by Christine | Jun 8, 2012 | Welcome Column
The comedic and slightly twisted bluegrass group called the “Cleverly’s” has a member with a great appreciation for, and a penchant to, quote Shakespeare as part of his act. He is a blind, left over flower child, and has learned the bard from his “collected works of...
by Christine | Dec 16, 2012 | Welcome Column
Yes you merry campers, June will soon be here and with it the CBA Summer Music Camp! This year the camp will run from Sunday June 9 through Wednesday June 12 at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, California, followed immediately by the CBA Father’s Day...
by Christine | Jul 17, 2011 | Welcome Column
There’s a really stupid-funny joke that Fred Cone, the bass player in my band Old Tunnel Road, is telling: What is blue and smells like red paint? It’s blue paint! This joke is so bad it’s almost funny……..almost. I tried turning the joke around to make it fit as an...
by Christine | Feb 24, 2009 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, The other day Rick used a graphic on our splash page of a bunch of race horses bursting through the starting gate to illustrate the beginning of registration for CBA Music Camp. I talked to Ingrid Noyes, Camp poobah, yesterday and I could hear the...
by Christine | Oct 3, 2009 | Welcome Column
Mrs. Slim and I just got back from a week in Memphis. Two days were spent at a Lions Clubs convention, the rest eating and sightseeing and hanging out with friends. Yes, we did the stuff you HAFTA do in Memphis – Graceland, Sun Studio, Beale Street and the Duck Walk....
by Christine | Aug 10, 2011 | Welcome Column
By the time you read this, I will be on my way to a brief camping trip in the Sierras. “But Bruce!”, you cry. “Where’s the bluegrass content?” I have pondered this, and the connection is obvious. Is there ANY form of music so perfectly suited to the great outdoors...
by Christine | Jun 24, 2020 | Welcome Column
Music is such a natural part of consciousness – people make music without thinking about it. We hum while we work, make little sing-song rhymes to accompany to match the rhythm of repetitive tasks. Kids are especially musical – almost anything they do can...
by Christine | Apr 12, 2017 | Welcome Column
Music is a such a natural part of consciousness – people make music without thinking about it. We hum while we work, make little sing-song rhymes to accompany to match the rhythm of repetitive tasks. Kids are especially musical- almost anything they do can be...
