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...
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...
