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...
by Christine | Jan 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
I’ve been playing in bands since I was fourteen. About every kind of band combination and style of music that came by at the right time. The first one, in Kansas City Missouri, was called the vettes four, and we were named after the Corvette. Don’t ask me why that was...
by Christine | Jul 6, 2016 | Welcome Column
“Quality of life” is a phrase that gets bandied about quite a bit and a lot of different contexts. I first heard the term in a “right to die” context – the phrase referred to the argument against heroic measures to keep someone alive, even as all their...
by Christine | Jan 4, 2007 | Welcome Column
Editor’s Note–Because of the nature of our respective careers, (she applications programmer, me team leader of a Internet development business), my wife and I have side-by-side computers set up on a wall-length counter in our study. And that’s where, most...
by Christine | May 19, 2018 | Welcome Column
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” –Helen KellerThis quote, poignant, turns my thoughts directions I haven’t...
