by Christine | Mar 7, 2016 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: This morning we welcome a new Welcomer, Andrei Ferrera. Andrei is a communications director at Children’s Day School in San Francisco. He has been playing bluegrass music for close to twenty years. In recent years,...
by Christine | Jun 9, 2016 | Welcome Column
I wasn’t surprised to hear that James King had passed away last month. Having seen him live many times over about 25 years, I knew that James enjoyed beer. He was a singer’s singer — one of those rare people blessed with such a powerful,...
by Christine | Jul 9, 2009 | Welcome Column
There are memorial jams today for two friends of mine who were part of our bluegrass community, Nick Champlin and Reza Honarkhah. I wanted to write something remembering Nick and Reza this morning, and I think it is particularly appropriate to do it here, because I...
by Christine | May 20, 2007 | Welcome Column
Tonight as I sat here watching the sun go down, I was listening to my favorite Native American flute player, R.Carlos Nakai, as he played several traditional Native American [Indian] melodies, on a flute that is made of cedar, and has 5 or 6 finger holes on it. The...
by Christine | Aug 30, 2020 | Welcome Column
Tonight as I was surfing through”Facebook”, I ran across a video of George Jones singing a duet with that pretty little Melba Montgomery. Sitting here tonight watching that video of so many years ago, [in the middle to late 60s ], it triggered a memory of...
by Christine | Aug 19, 2019 | Welcome Column
One of the things I love best about bluegrass music is how fluid it is. People are writing great new tunes every year. It’s a genre that has been around for longer than I have been living and that makes it pretty old by definition. But the music is always being...
by Christine | Sep 14, 2017 | Welcome Column
One of my favorite bluegrass artists is Rhonda Vincent. She sings wonderfully, plays great mandolin, runs a terrific band and is quite beautiful to boot. I’ve never seen her do a bad show; she’s always upbeat, positive, seemingly delighted to be doing what she is...
by Christine | May 15, 2008 | Welcome Column
One of my favorite bluegrass artists is Rhonda Vincent. She sings wonderfully, plays great mandolin, runs a terrific band and is quite beautiful to boot. I’ve never seen her do a bad show; she’s always upbeat, positive, seemingly delighted to be doing what she is...
by Christine | Oct 15, 2017 | Welcome Column
You might have heard of botnets, networks of personal computers enslaved by malicious software viruses to do their evil bidding. Well my personal organic-computerhead, the one that sits on top of my shoulders and controls my every movement (even the words being typed...
by Christine | Mar 3, 2013 | Welcome Column
I’ll just say it up front: I’m some kind of idiot. One of he reasons I didn’t run for the Board of Directors this year was that I was trying to clear some calendar space to play more music (this reason I became involved with the CBA in the first place). Most absurdly,...
