by Christine | Dec 17, 2018 | Welcome Column
I’ve always thought it would be cool to be a disk jockey on the radio. Spin just the right tunes from a vast music collection for all you listeners to enjoy, just as if you were at a party with your closest friends. My little brother was a DJ in college and even...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2010 | Welcome Column
Christmas hasn’t been quite the same for the past three years. For some years prior, Henry and I had made a point of visiting my Aunt Marge in a nursing home in Alhambra every year on Christmas day which also happened to be her birthday. At first, we brought a...
by Christine | Apr 6, 2018 | Welcome Column
1.”Standing up to an enemy is tough. Standing up to your friends is tougher.”Facebook: Facebook really did seem like a good idea at the time. Sometimes with technology coming at us at like a comet folks seem to get caught up on all the great things that can happen and...
by Christine | Apr 1, 2018 | Welcome Column
Hey AllIn case you live in the boonies and don’t know what I’m talking about – Spring Camp Out is a week Full of Music, Friends and Frivolity!We get started in Turlock, CA on Monday, April 16, 2018 and play bluegrass until Sunday afternoon, April 22,...
by Christine | Mar 16, 2011 | Welcome Column
Last night, I wrote a veritable masterpiece of a column. This morning, I forgot to upload it and now I’m at work, 23 non-connected miles from that masterpiece. This column ran about this time last year – I apologize for the rerun. – BC Let’s see,...
by Christine | Apr 20, 2018 | Welcome Column
Happy 420 Day, everyone! If you’re reading this from the CBA Campout, congratulations, you have a good internet connection! Now get off your phone and get pickin’!If you’re reading this from home or work, you have failed to make it to the...
by Christine | Jan 4, 2017 | Welcome Column
The CBA as an organization needs a constant infusion on new members and contributors to remain vital. Let’s revisit what the California Bluegrass Association is, and what it does. “Oh yeah”, some folks might say. “They’re the ones that put on that big festival in...
by Christine | Mar 8, 2015 | Welcome Column
Springtime is here my darlin’ Yes, that time of year has come when we all have to set our clocks an hour ahead and start our day an hour earlier than we’re used to. It must be spring! There’s so much to do now and the sap is rising. We should get an early start. I...
by Christine | Sep 24, 2011 | Welcome Column
Randy Morton wrote a beautiful column on stage fright. The fear of performing in front of people. That’s a big one. It rates up there between bad marriage and death in a lot of folks minds. As for myself, I don’t have much of it, though that was not always the case. I...
by Christine | Jul 20, 2008 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from David Lange Sunday, July 20th, 2008 A while back, a friend of mine who played in a popular bluegrass band explained that after having been one of the musicians playing in the background for many years, was now going to take a lead position front...
