by Christine | Nov 29, 2018 | Welcome Column
Playing banjo for 58 seconds — how hard could it be? Well, if the tape is running, harder than one would expect.I got an e-mail recently from a fellow who was making a CD and said he had got my name from someone who knew me and he needed 58 seconds of banjo...
by Christine | Dec 7, 2020 | Welcome Column
Many of you will get a day off tomorrow for the Columbus Day Holiday, but not me. September is the holiday month for me. Not only do I get Labor Day on the first Monday of the month like everybody else, I also get Native American Day on the fourth Friday. I work as a...
by Christine | Oct 11, 2009 | Welcome Column
Many of you will get a day off tomorrow for the Columbus Day Holiday, but not me. September is the holiday month for me. Not only do I get Labor Day on the first Monday of the month like everybody else, I also get Native American Day on the fourth Friday. I work as a...
by Christine | May 23, 2010 | Welcome Column
A few years ago, a group of my musical buddies and I were asked to provide live music for a fiftieth anniversary celebration which was to be held on New Years Eve down at Lake Havasu. Since we are Snowbirds and were headed there for the winter months anyway, we agreed...
by Christine | May 17, 2019 | Welcome Column
You’ve heard it. You’ve listened to it many times. You like it. You love it. You’ve tried to sing it. You did sing it. You memorized it. That’s right. The catchy song penned and sung by Tim O’Brien with Hot Rize, “Nellie Kane.”“What?” Some of you may say. You don’t...
by Christine | Aug 19, 2017 | Welcome Column
A couple of years ago I read an article that cited research from MIT suggesting that “human brains don’t just recognize music – our evolution has actually produced a dedicated neural circuit for it.” The researchers were excited about how continued studies might...
by Christine | Jan 19, 2019 | Welcome Column
With six months to go till the CBA Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival, I give you a compilation of festivation and camping wisdom:1. The only thing worse than having a spider in your tent is losing a spider in your tent.2. Remember to bring a large indelible marker for...
by Christine | Jun 20, 2020 | Welcome Column
A few weeks ago I attended an open jam session at an East Bay bar and restaurant. There were about a dozen pickers there from older geezers like me (one fellow who said he had actually played in a New York coffee house years ago with a young Bob Dylan) to some much...
by Christine | Nov 30, 2020 | Welcome Column
“There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.” — F. Scott FitzgeraldIsn’t Mr. Fitzgerald on point when you pause to think of these 15 words. All strung together; all connected for reasons, deep: Each word...
by Christine | Aug 20, 2015 | Welcome Column
I tend to have writing ideas flowing through my head all the time, but as soon as I accepted the offer to write this column, all those lovely ideas disappeared into thin air. Funny how that works. But I’ve made a commitment, so I guess I’ll just start at the beginning...
