by Christine | Dec 28, 2015 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST…“Sweet Emma, Sweet Emma, thanks for what you do; Sweet Emma we know your grass is blue.”- Mike & Yvonne TatarWhen Mike & I moved down to the San Diego area in 1996, we looked around for the bluegrass scene to connect with and found the San...
by Christine | Oct 20, 2012 | Welcome Column
Changes happen. Part of life and all that. There are milestones kept close to the heart and fondly remembered for a lifetime like the first car, first instrument, first kiss, and first time through Blackberry Blossom. Other changes and milestones are not so fond and...
by Christine | Aug 20, 2016 | Welcome Column
(Author’s note: It’s a testament to change that since I wrote this column in 2012, I’ve moved to a nurturing home, aced three years of college, and had the good fortune of consistent work. It’s hard to believe that I’ll be turning the big...
by Christine | Dec 11, 2010 | Welcome Column
There is an old cowboy, he’s grown kind of strange His guitar and banjo are his only companions He sleeps in the saddle and yawns in the canyons He’s grown plumper, but hopes for change And as the moon rises, he spits on his fire Thinking about old times,...
by Christine | Nov 11, 2011 | Welcome Column
I was thinking of that old song. I don’t know why, but I got to remembering….. You get a line and I’ll get a pole honey… It was summer in South Prairie Washington, and I was about ten years old. And My cousin Jerry and I had finished our chores on his daddy’s farm,...
by Christine | Feb 28, 2011 | Welcome Column
I love square dancing. It’s the greatest, goofiest, most wholesome musical activity I’ve ever participated in. Just a few weeks ago Jeanie and I attended the San Francisco Bluegrass and Old-Time festival square dance at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. Two...
by Christine | Jul 10, 2011 | Welcome Column
I have a real problem with old time music. But it’s not what you might think. For example, I’m certainly not the died in the wool hard core Bluegrass fan who resents any intrusion by another musical form into the stage time “reserved” for the...
by Christine | Jan 7, 2017 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–Bert from back in ’11) I have a real problem with old time music. But it’s not what you might think. For example, I’m certainly not the died in the wool hard core Bluegrass fan who resents any intrusion by another musical...
by Christine | Jul 7, 2019 | Welcome Column
I have a real problem with old time music. But it’s not what you might think. For example, I’m certainly not the died in the wool hard core Bluegrass fan who resents any intrusion by another musical form into the stage time “reserved” for the...
by Christine | Oct 7, 2018 | Welcome Column
In my ongoing 10,000 hour journey to mastering the upright bass, I have reencountered a barrier that may require an allocation of a few thousand of those hours to break through.Sure, I can play quarter notes at a considerably fast BPM tempo while burying the metronome...
