by Christine | Feb 1, 2011 | Welcome Column
Those who frequent the Message Board will recall that the SCVF suffered a blow over the Christmas holiday. Some jerk, and I’m showing great restraint in my word selection here, stole the association’s sound equipment. If you’ve been to the Fiddlers in San Jose, you...
by Christine | Dec 8, 2012 | Welcome Column
Every town and city all over the world has one. The appearance happens for a few weeks, and only during this season of the year; every year. You can’t miss it, unless you keep you eyes closed. It is red, white, black, and wears spectacles. Yes, you are right, it is...
by Christine | Jun 24, 2019 | Welcome Column
Among the gifts Santa brought this year was a fascinating book, “Satan Is Real, the Ballad of the Louvin Brothers” by Charlie Louvin with Benjamin Whitmer. Charlie and his brother, Ira, were the Louvin Brothers, a stage name shortened from their real family name of...
by Christine | Jun 1, 2020 | Welcome Column
I was trying to come up with a topic to write about yesterday when I opened my morning paper (yes, we still get a morning paper — three, in fact) and there was a story on the local section front about Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records.You hear the words...
by Christine | Mar 3, 2020 | Welcome Column
“Daily grist; political correctness is pure cyanide to common sense.”–UnknownI first met Lance LeRoy on Labor Day weekend of 1983 at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. Back then the California bluegrass Association put on two...
by Christine | Dec 24, 2011 | Welcome Column
It seems to be the nature of humans to take ideas, core beliefs, and basic philosophies and condense their essence down to mottos and sayings, abbreviations and acronyms. The athlete says, “No pain without gain,” and the die-hard Bluegrass traditionalists say, “If it...
by Christine | Jun 28, 2019 | Welcome Column
A while back, trying to be funny, I coined the phrase “three basses is one too many” to describe my collection of upright basses and in particular, too many, from my wife Linda’s point of view. All were out and scattered through a couple of rooms in our house. I would...
by Christine | Mar 22, 2011 | Welcome Column
First, let me stipulate, I’ve been sick. I know, having a cold doesn’t sound like it’s that big of a deal, but this has been a HUGE cold. Rumbling deep in my chest, sinuses impacted like wisdom teeth, arsenic-like achiness. This has been my seventh day and finally I’m...
by Christine | Nov 19, 2017 | Welcome Column
Scamp: an impish or playful (young) personScoundrel: a disreputable person: a rascalScallywag: scamp, reprobateIn most walks of my life I run into a few notable people…some better avoided, but some are notable for their creative approach to living life, more so living...
by Christine | Jun 10, 2012 | Welcome Column
I’ve been looking forward to this day all year, the day when I can say goodbye to the work a day world and just be myself for a while. Okay, so I have to write a welcome column before I go. Big deal. I can just mail that in. Nobody will notice. They’re all...
