by Patrick Campbell | Apr 3, 2022 | Announcements
[Vancouver, BC] — [March 17] – John Reischman announced today that his album, New Time & Old Acoustic, has been nominated for TRADITIONAL ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR in the 51st Annual JUNO Awards. Reischman has previously been nominated for two Juno Awards with his...
by Patrick Campbell | Apr 3, 2022 | Opinion
Donna Hargis is the CBA Regional Director for Region 6 Huntington Beach. (photo credit, Robin Frenette) Art students often hear, “You need to master realism before you can go abstract. Even Picasso started with realism.” I appreciate this sentiment, but it doesn’t...
by Patrick Campbell | Apr 3, 2022 | Reviews
Linda Lay www.LindaLayMusic.com Song List: The Happiness of Having You, The Jingle Hole, Imagine That, The Mountain, Lightning, White Line, I’ll Be Here in the Morning, Blue Blueridge Mountain Girl, Standing in My Way, Lost in the Shuffle. Linda Lay may not be a...
by Patrick Campbell | Apr 3, 2022 | Announcements
2022 BERKELEY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL For the sixth year, the Freight & Salvage celebrates incredible talent with the Berkeley Bluegrass Festival, April 29-May 1, 2022. With concerts programmed by Grammy-award winner Laurie Lewis and the Freight’s Artistic Director...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 30, 2022 | Welcome Column
Springtime is near my darlin’ … and I’m counting now the days. (Bill Monroe) Living in California sure makes it easier when it gets down to saying goodbye to Old Man Winter. Compared to my years living back east, out here the winter hardly ever even comes: It’s not...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 28, 2022 | Welcome Column
The Daily Grist: “My ideal summer day was reading on the porch” … Harold Varmus A porch is a wonderful place to be. If you want to be a front porch picker, you have to have a front porch. It’s just as much fun to pick on the back porch and if you have a wrap...
by Patrick Campbell | Mar 8, 2022 | Announcements
This timely and wonderful piece was sent in by Jam Pak founder, Anni Beach: Jam Pak stands with Ukraine. As most of you know, Jam Pak was represented by Cisco and the Racecars and me in Ukraine during the summers of 2018 and 2019. We have lifelong close friendships...
by Patrick Campbell | Mar 28, 2022 | Reviews
Song List: Righteous Path, Make It Up, Fourteen Days, Sinners and Saints, Breakin’ Down, Nomad Blues, Two Roads, Self-Imposed Hights and Lows, Lonesome Evening Blues, More White House Blues, Won’t Bring You Down, Squirrels in My Car, This Old House. Mohavisoul is...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 26, 2022 | Welcome Column
You’d be pretty hard pressed to come up with the name of a mountain range which is more storied and sung about than the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially if you’re a Bluegrass fan. The Blue Ridge will forever be my favorite mountains. They were the first mountains I...
by Patrick Campbell | Mar 24, 2022 | Announcements
Mei Lin, Heirendt, Django Ruckrich, and Kyle Ledson, are featured in a great article by John Lawless in Bluegrass Today about one of California’s finest young bands! John notes in the article that Broken Compass’s success is “a tribute to the Youth...
