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...
by Patrick Campbell | Mar 22, 2022 | Announcements
CONCERTS NOTE: most of these events require proof of vaccination/wearing of face masks. March 20 (3 pm): Plaid Strangers (Karen Heil, Thomas Angel, Maxine Gerber) – Bernal Star, SF; photo above by Brendan Doyle NOTE: most events at Bernal Star announced by KCH...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 18, 2022 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass and baseball are connected at the hip. And I would have serious withdrawal symptoms if I were deprived of either. Covid tested me with both addictions over the past two years and I was worried that labor negotiations might deprive me of one of my passions...
by Bruce Campbell | Mar 16, 2022 | Welcome Column
When I read the “Hooked on Bluegrass” stories, I am struck by how many different ways we come to know and love bluegrass music. For some, it’s very direct – they grew up in a bluegrass-soaked environment, and it was part of their lives for as long as they...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 14, 2022 | Welcome Column
If you’re gonna be a Bluegrass fan, you gotta have a nickname. It’s as simple as that. Fortunately for me, I was reared in the Southeast, (where Bluegrass was born). Colorful nicknames are the rule there. My mom called me “Bert Boy” almost before I was born. I kid you...
