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,...
by Christine | Nov 12, 2010 | Welcome Column
The election’s over. Not just the CBA board elections (though that was a nail biter). The right people won that one. But the BIG one….whether the right one or the wrong one won depends, I guess, on which side of the aisle you stand on. Now when it comes to politics...
by Christine | Jul 22, 2008 | Welcome Column
Respect and Performance Attire Today’s column from Ted Lehmann Tuesday, July 22, 2008 (Editor’s note: Ted is a blogger back in New Hampshire and he’s give us permission to use a piece he wrote this past Saturday on bluegrass band attire. Yes, you heard us...
by Christine | Sep 13, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Re-posting one of Ted’s from a decade ago. Still resonates. RC)There’s been a good deal of discussion during the past week on Bluegrass-L (the bluegrass mailing list for IBMA members and some others) about the dress of bluegrass bands and...
by Christine | Jul 12, 2013 | Welcome Column
I’m thinking about retirement tonight. Been thinking about it a lot lately. Thinking about how nice it would be to get up in the morning and not have to waste a thought on anything having to do with whatever I’ve had to waste my thoughts on for the last thirty or so...
