by Christine | Sep 2, 2019 | Welcome Column
There were no “official” CBA events scheduled in July but our regional CBA musicians showed off their talents at festivals across the Western States and abroad:The Crying Uncle Band toured Finland for two weeks and performed in both house concerts and huge festivals....
by Christine | Sep 1, 2015 | Welcome Column
Autumn in the CBA is always ELECTION TIME and a new Board of Directors is seated at our Annual Membership Meeting in October. Please read the candidate statements in the September and October Bluegrass Breakdown and vote! This year there are more...
by Christine | Sep 6, 2011 | Welcome Column
This is a month of many of changes for me and the CBA. I just retired from Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley where I have worked since 1975. I have had a wonderful career in healthcare in a first rate Medical Center working with and managing hundreds of...
by Christine | Sep 8, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, So dawns another bluegrass week. Good gravy! We enter into the September, which is, I kid you not, Be Kind To Editors and Writers Month. We find ourselves in the thick of a bluegrass maelstrom. The gods looked down and shouted, with great wrathful tugs...
by Christine | Jul 31, 2010 | Welcome Column
I just saw a television commercial for the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The kids in the promo looked happy chomping on corn dogs and spinning around on all the rides. The X Games are on ESPN. Despite the relative cool of the last three days, we will soon be back to...
by Christine | Sep 5, 2016 | Welcome Column
It is election time again for CBA Director’s and we are heading toward our Annual CBA Membership Meeting at the Fall Camp Out in October. Every year we see that not many people are willing to step up to lead our volunteer organization. Eleven candidates out of a 2800...
by Christine | Sep 15, 2016 | Welcome Column
At the end of April, shortly after my marriage ended, I bought tickets to see my favorite band, Lukas Nelson + Promise of the Real, play in Salt Lake City, Utah, in September. I had no idea how I was going to get there, but I bought the tickets anyway. They would be...
by Christine | Jul 26, 2018 | Welcome Column
daily grist; this thought struck me the other night, since Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone would his telephone number be number one? Just wondering.All of my life I have had the ability to “feel”when something or someone was...
by Christine | Aug 22, 2012 | Welcome Column
Most bands I’ve been in have had a love/hate relationship with setlists. Most bands you see moving seamlessly from song to song at a festival performance do so because they have a setlist and have practiced it as a whole. The songs are carefully chosen to convey the...
by Christine | Aug 10, 2014 | Welcome Column
I’ve always loved Brooks Judd’s Ten Items posts so I’ll steal his idea today and tell you about my summer vacation. My real summer vacation is happening right now at the Good Old Fashioned Festival near Hollister, but my “vacation” just past (notice the quotes) took...
