by Christine | Apr 14, 2015 | Welcome Column
Every person promoting a bluegrass festival is confronted with the dilemma of balancing artistic excellence with business concerns within the context of varying audience tastes as well as willingness to pay. This dilemma creates a constant pull between wishing to...
by Christine | Mar 12, 2013 | Welcome Column
The other day I was talking to a promoter of a small festival in the midwest. His event is reputed to be a good one that people enjoy attending and artists like working for. He commented that he needed to do something to strenghten his lineup and reach out more...
by Christine | Aug 6, 2011 | Welcome Column
First, let me thank all of you who signed my candidate’s petition for the Board of Directors election. I will do my best to live up to your expectations. Recently there was a suggestion posted on the Message Board for increasing membership in the association, to wit,...
by Christine | Aug 18, 2013 | Welcome Column
Over the past year, the CBA Board of Directors has discussed several ways to modify our policies and by-laws to allow us to address urgent issues that arise between board meetings and to take advantage of new technologies that could help the CBA function better. The...
by Christine | May 12, 2015 | Welcome Column
I read somewhere that in a national study commissioned by IBMA about a variety of measures exploring the popularity and penetration of bluegrass music there were approximately twenty million people claiming to listen to bluegrass music. That’s a lot of people,...
by Christine | Mar 5, 2012 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Happy Monday morning. I’m giving today’s Welcome over to my boy Marty. I’m looking forward to seeing the Punch Brothers show with him this coming Thursday in San Francisco. I’m also happy to mention that he will be performing with Billy and Sarah, and...
by Christine | Feb 7, 2015 | Welcome Column
Yes, the new Punch Brothers album. The Phosphorescent Blues has drums. Let’s just get that out in the open before I begin my review of what I believe to be the greatest album the Punch Brothers have put out yet. Everything is just on a larger scale than their...
by Christine | Apr 13, 2010 | Welcome Column
The Cloverdale (California) “Old Time Fiddle Festival” is mostly a fiddle contest. This festival has been held every year for the past thirty-five years, the last one being on January 23rd and 24th of 2010. The goals of this festival are to help perpetuate the...
by Christine | Mar 15, 2020 | Welcome Column
Hi ya’ll. My name is Juno, I am an 8-week old Cardigan Welsh Corgi and I am substituting this morning for my new owner Geoff Sargent. We’ve known each other now for about 48 hours and he seems to be an ok guy, but a little overbearing when it comes to letting me do my...
by Christine | Jan 7, 2020 | Welcome Column
I’ve seen very good players cringe when someone in a jam calls the Ralph Stanley classic Clinch Mountain Backstep. Okay, maybe not very good players but just the same some good jammers do flinch at the call.Because I revel in redundancy, or because maybe there are two...
