by Christine | Dec 3, 2009 | Welcome Column
{NOTE: I wrote this column the day before Bruce Campbell’s “Holiday Gift Ideas” welcome message appeared on the CBA web site yesterday. Hopefully, the content is different enough that readers won’t be bored with columns dealing with the subject of gifts...
by Christine | Sep 22, 2020 | Welcome Column
It hasn’t been that long ago that Facebook started dominating my residual time: the dominatrix of spare moments which used to be assigned to simply looking up into the sky on a sunny day; or wondering, how many stories could be told by the Redwood Tree which...
by Christine | Jan 23, 2011 | Welcome Column
We recently attended the Forty-Eight Hour Jam in Bakersfield, what a great event! It’s just what I needed to get me out of the winter time “blahs.” Winters on the Delta are often cold, gray and gloomy and can bring out the worst in a person. I sometimes sit under my...
by Christine | Oct 8, 2010 | Welcome Column
I love to sing. I love to harmonize. I don’t back off much. I just let it roll. Body and soul. Not everyone feels that same freedom when they sing. That thing where you unbutton your sternum, pull open your ribs and just let her rip. Some folks approach singing like a...
by Christine | Jun 30, 2020 | Welcome Column
Most folks love to sing whether they admit it or not. Singing is a very natural thing to do for most people no matter if they have a good voice or not. Still many of us are embarrassed to sing in public. We’ve heard professional singers and they are...
by Christine | Oct 14, 2013 | Welcome Column
Jack Norman’s mother wanted to be the proud parent of twins. She didn’t get her way, because Jack was her first and only child. And there he was some twenty-four years ago coming into this ol’ world all by his lonesome. Oh it wasn’t Jack’s fault, but nevertheless,...
by Christine | Jul 31, 2011 | Welcome Column
As most of you know already, this month we lost one of the finest bluegrass musicians of all time. Kenny Baker, who fiddled for Bill Monroe on and off for a quarter century, died of a stroke at age 85. One could argue forever about who is the best bluegrass fiddler of...
by Christine | May 25, 2014 | Welcome Column
Here we are with just one more week left in the month of May. That can only mean one thing to California Bluegrass folks…The Father’s Day Festival is just around the bend; a week of pickin’ and grinnin’ is within our reach! We get to see some folks we haven’t seen...
by Christine | Feb 16, 2011 | Welcome Column
I attended an open mic event a few weeks ago. It wasn’t a bluegrass event; it didn’t have any particular musical theme, and the acts were pretty diverse. In three hours, there were some real high points, but there were also some fairly cringe-inducing moments. The...
by Christine | Sep 25, 2020 | Welcome Column
We’ve hit the six month mark in this pandemic, and it’s feeling like we have done it all. We’ve baked the bread, attended online concerts, let our hair grow long, run out of Netflix, washed the groceries, and lived in our yoga pants for weeks on end....
