by Christine | Dec 29, 2019 | Welcome Column
Ring out the False, Ring in the True– Alfred Lord Tennyson// For 12 years I had taken the same route to a facility for my Mother, 3 days a week—sometimes four–where my Mother would get her dialysis. And in those days, we were always slotted for the same...
by Christine | Jul 28, 2020 | Welcome Column
My sincere thanks to John Hettinger, who always manages to keep our bluegrass community current on happenings in the greater Sacramento area. Unfortunately, the piece I’m posting today, written by John, comes as a blow to all who knew our friend...
by Christine | Jan 14, 2016 | Welcome Column
Some people say it’s better to be lucky than good. Bill Monroe was both lucky and good. He was an amazingly creative person, an endless fount of songs and tunes, and he worked for a long time to come up with a style of music that would be his own and live...
by Christine | Jan 12, 2015 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–We reach back four years for this one, and it’s absolutely amazing how Ted’s piece retains its relevancy to today’s bluegrass industry. ‘Industry’, you ask? You betcha, and a growing industry at that....
by Christine | Jan 15, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, I haven’t gotten the chance to welcome readers to our site for a couple of weeks. Hey everybody! It’s been a busy couple of weeks. The first weekend of 2008 my son Marty and I went up to Portland for the 4th annual River City Bluegrass Festival. It was a...
by Christine | Jun 28, 2009 | Welcome Column
I’ve spent the past couple months up in Humboldt County due to a family emergency. I always look forward to spending time in that area because I was born and raised there and much of my family resides there. Though this was not meant to be a pleasure trip I decided to...
by Christine | Sep 6, 2015 | Welcome Column
By Annie Alvira….the much favored offspring of MarcosMy favorite place to be is in the car and driving on an open road. As a kid, road trips with my parents ingrained themselves in the fabric of who I am. As an adult, I still relish looking out the window,...
by Christine | Nov 24, 2015 | Welcome Column
As I suspect is true of most of my generation from my part of the country, we have been driving vehicles since before we started walking toward tackle barns and country schools. On those tiny Georgia farms back in the 1930s, from the age of six, I drove...
by Christine | Jul 7, 2020 | Welcome Column
Irene often works for bands at festivals selling their merchandise while they’re onstage or for longer, if they want her to stay. Over the years she’s become adept at finding the CD on the rack containing specific songs the band has sung during their set....
by Christine | Dec 21, 2017 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass is group music. I’ve heard it described as hillbilly chamber music, each instrument contributing its own voice to the ensemble. Another comparison is with a New Orleans jazz band, with the mandolin and fiddle taking the role of the clarinet,...
