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...
by Christine | Aug 30, 2016 | 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...
by Christine | Mar 9, 2014 | Welcome Column
Learning a foreign language can be a very satisfying and rewarding experience but it can also be very frustrating. There’s all this new vocabulary which you have to figure out how to pronounce, conjugate and process. But if you take the trouble to learn some of the...
by Christine | Aug 20, 2019 | Welcome Column
Back in the middle of the last century, about spring of 1962 “The San Joaquin Valley Boys” band, fell victim to one of these phony T.V. “Talent Contests”. Here’s what triggered the memory of that phony “gig”.One day this week,...
by Christine | Oct 22, 2020 | Welcome Column
Back in the middle of the last century, about spring of 1962 “The San Joaquin Valley Boys” band, fell victim to one of these phony T.V. “Talent Contests”. Here’s what triggered the memory of that phony “gig”.One day this week,...
