by Christine | Aug 11, 2019 | Welcome Column
Since the age of recorded music began, people have made lots of money giving music lovers what they want. Music you can choose to listen to whenever you want to is a huge thing. In the past hundred years we’ve gone from wax cylinders to vinyl, tape, CDs...
by Christine | Oct 5, 2017 | Welcome Column
My band plays a fair number of independent living and assisted living places. We go way back to Stephen Foster and songs you learned at camp, and 1930s and ‘40s hit tunes, and Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, and we get a great response.Sometimes after the main show...
by Christine | Apr 16, 2008 | Welcome Column
How many times have you tried and tried to remember a song, and you just can’t quite remember it. But once you pick up your fiddle, or guitar, your fingers seem to remember the song. Clearly, music is wired into our brains along wholly different circuitry than our...
by Christine | Apr 10, 2013 | Welcome Column
Before I dive into my real topic, I want to weigh in on Ted Lehman’s theme in his Tuesday column regarding AGE (Automatic Gratuitous Encores): I’m in favor of them. Yes, they’re silly, but if the time for them is built into the set schedule, and considering at any...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2018 | Welcome Column
It’s been both a privilege and a pleasure to help Ted Kuster and his crew on the Camp (Creek) Fire relief effort. In order to do one of my jobs, that of composing personalized thank-you’s to donors, I’ve needed to read all of the answers to...
by Christine | Jan 16, 2012 | Welcome Column
Eons ago the Earth was silent. Forests stood grey, burdened by cold, trees bent over lifeless. The ground was parched and void of color. Skies were dark and clouds covered the sky, blocking the light. Life seemed to be in hibernation, hidden. Somewhere in the forest a...
by Christine | Jan 15, 2014 | Welcome Column
I love to watch cooking shows on TV. There are a number of shows where up-and-coming chefs are challenged to take a bewildering pile of unexpected ingredients and create a dish that is balanced, pretty and delicious. The same principle can work in music, too. I’m not...
by Christine | Sep 28, 2014 | Welcome Column
I recently purchased the “Three Bells” album by the world’s top three Dobro players, Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas, and Rob Ickes. This was recorded a short time before the passing of Mr. Auldridge. Knowing that this was going to be the final project for Mike, the...
by Christine | May 10, 2012 | Welcome Column
Up on Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County there is an old inn that was built in 1904 along the scenic railroad that once wound its way up the mountain. Tamalpais and its railroad were world famous back then; tourists took a ferry from San Francisco, a train to Mill Valley...
by Christine | Feb 22, 2012 | Welcome Column
I know it’ll be Wednesday when you read this, but as I’m writing it, it’s actually Fat Tuesday – the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, and this reminds of what? New Orleans, of course! Tonight is Mardi Gras, and having been to The Big Easy, I can tell you I would NOT want...
