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...
by Christine | Dec 18, 2003 | Welcome Column
Thursday, December 18, 2003 Okay, so this is not a story strictly related to bluegrass. Alright…..it’s not related to bluegrass music at all. But I’ll bet with a lot of time on my hands and way, way more talent than I actually have, I could use the story to write a...
by Christine | Sep 16, 2009 | Welcome Column
There was a lively thread on the Message Board recently wherein a reader made the “shameful admission” that his record collection didn’t have any Doyle Lawson. The admission was followed by a number of responses, suggesting some good recordings to fill out his...
by Christine | Aug 30, 2015 | Welcome Column
Sunday, August 30, 2015I have always been a huge fan of my fellow welcome columnist, Brooks Judd. His ten items or fewer concept has amused, entertained and challenged over the years with random observations about the world we all inhabit. So today for my fifth Sunday...
by Christine | Jun 23, 2013 | Welcome Column
Many years ago when I was a girl of thirteen, it was necessary for me to leave the comfort of my “nest” on the Hoopa Indian Reservation and I went to live in New York with an aunt and uncle who were “Rank Strangers” to me. As you might imagine, the transition was not...
