by Christine | Mar 14, 2013 | Welcome Column
Tomorrow is the Ides of March, famous as the day Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate by Brutus, Cassius and a bunch of others. That was in 44 BCE, which would be about 2057 years ago. The Roman historian Plutarch writes that Caesar had been warned...
by Christine | May 19, 2019 | Welcome Column
This is not your Fleetwood Mac column or some aberration from the Bluegrass path! It might even be somewhat nefarious (nawww not really). But, with all this weather we have been hit with lately…all of May’s rain for the SF Bay area in one day with more on the horizon,...
by Christine | May 26, 2013 | Welcome Column
I am the kind of Grandmother who would travel 3,000 miles for a chance to babysit my ten year old granddaughter. Ali’s parents (my daughter and son-in-law) have gone to Croatia to celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. My reception at their home in Warwick,...
by Christine | Oct 11, 2020 | Welcome Column
Enough of this already! We are all going through Corona virus burnout now and unfortunately it’s far from over. Yesterday would have been John Prine’s 74th birthday but this terrible virus ended his life well before he had written all of his songs for us.I Zoom jammed...
by Christine | Dec 9, 2016 | Welcome Column
It’s the Christmas season. A giving time. A time of year when many of us look beyond our own needs and perhaps become more acutely aware of the needs of others.I have a lot of homeless friends. Folks who I’ve met walking the bike trail around my...
by Christine | Jun 23, 2017 | Welcome Column
daily grist; a wise man once said nothing – – – – – – -but, it wasn’t me. JDRhynesI don’t know if they still have this contest but back in June of 1977 during rodeo week in Salinas California they used to...
by Christine | Oct 14, 2007 | Welcome Column
The 11th annual KVMR Celtic Festival, a three-day music festival meets renaissance faire, took place September 28-30 at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley. This is a great festival for those who love Irish music (and its relatives) and the event’s...
by Christine | Mar 31, 2014 | Welcome Column
I’ve been the Area Activities VP for San Francisco for about eight or nine years and I try to do all I can to spread the word about the CBA, all the great things it does and all the wonderful people who make up the bluegrass community. If anyone I meet expresses the...
by Christine | Oct 31, 2020 | Welcome Column
It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long ago, but the lines on my face, as well as the calendar here by my desk, confirm the fact that 47 years have indeed gone under the bridge since I became a San Joaquin Valley Boys band member. Lets go back to the year...
by Christine | Dec 6, 2018 | Welcome Column
If you been following along for the almost 8 years I’ve been inhabiting this first Thursday space, you would know I’ve made a welcome column career sharing my views and tales regarding a number of areas and topics in my musical life that have caused me some level of...
