by Christine | Sep 27, 2012 | Welcome Column
Back in January of 1973, my two good friends Vern and Ray did a tour of upstate New York and Eastern Canada. They wanted me to go along and play rhythm guitar with them, but I had a rare winter job that year so I could not go. A music friend of theirs who was from New...
by Christine | May 6, 2009 | Welcome Column
I have wrote before about how being in a band is like being in a family. And I still believe it – it’s an apt analogy. But I wonder what it’s like in the top ranks of professional music. With some notable exceptions, it seems that the personnel in band ranks change...
by Christine | Jul 29, 2013 | Welcome Column
Two seventeen a.m., for the past six months or so my new start time, give or take an hour, which is followed by five or six hours of the most deliciously peaceful reading and writing time, then by a shower, a little breakfast, work somewhere on the six acres, then...
by Christine | Nov 19, 2012 | Welcome Column
Few topics have inspired more bluegrass and old time song writing than the subject of moonshining. The New Lost City Ramblers devoted an entire LP to the subject called Prohibition is a Failure. And the fascination with the subject continues to the present day with...
by Christine | Nov 24, 2014 | Welcome Column
At this year’s World of Bluegrass business conference, Mike & I had the pleasure of being speakers at a workshop titled All Together Now: An Associations’ Focus that happened on Thursday afternoon at the Raleigh Convention Center. It was for local, regional and...
by Christine | Aug 27, 2012 | Welcome Column
This past Saturday Jeanie and I checked out the Sea Music Festival at San Francisco’s Hyde Street Pier. While there wasn’t any bluegrass music, there was plenty of traditional, acoustic music, along workshops, living history demonstrations, and a bunch of people in...
by Christine | Dec 27, 2009 | Welcome Column
As the year 2009 comes to a close, no doubt many of us will bring in the New Year to the strains of Auld Lang Syne. I only know the first verse and chorus. I have sung it many times not really knowing what the words mean. After a little research, I found that it’s a...
by Christine | Oct 30, 2013 | Welcome Column
A good friend and I have been debating (amicably) the appropriate tactics to ensure a bluegrass open mic we host will in fact, focus on bluegrass. Open mic events being, well, open, they sometimes attract some folks who don’t really understand bluegrass or maybe even...
by Christine | Feb 9, 2012 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Our regular second Thursday guy, George Martin, is bumming around down in the desert this week with his wife, Barbara, and sends his hello. We reached back and found a column written by former Welcomer, David Lange some four years ago. This particular...
by Christine | Jan 20, 2008 | Welcome Column
The encore has just been played by the final band for the evening. As the stage lights fade, many vendors begin to close up shop, and as cars begin to stream out of the parking lot; there is an impression that the day is over. So, show’s over, nothing to see here? Not...
