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,...
by Christine | Mar 27, 2019 | Welcome Column
The California Bluegrass Association is dedicated to spreading the word about bluegrass, gospel, old time and american acoustic music. And based upon the young folks I’ve seen at our events, we’re doing a good job. Bluegrass is such a community-based music at heart...
by Christine | May 25, 2011 | Welcome Column
In case you didn’t know, there’s a bit of a bluegrass festival coming up. In less than a month, hordes of bluegrass faithful will descend upon the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley for the 36th edition of the CBA’s Father’s Day Festival. I’m getting pretty...
by Christine | Apr 13, 2015 | Welcome Column
Recently when Nell Robinson contacted me about some upcoming performances of her show Rose of No Man’s Land she mentioned that one of the venues would be Villa Montalvo. I was pretty sure she did not know the nature of this amazing place on the edge of the Santa Cruz...
by Christine | May 28, 2014 | Welcome Column
A good friend and I have been debating (amicably) the appropriate tactics to ensure a bluegrass open mic we host will in fact, focus on bluegrass. Open mic events being, well, open, they sometimes attract some folks who don’t really understand bluegrass or maybe even...
