by Christine | Dec 27, 2017 | Welcome Column
7: Be Glad You’re Not in Oildale Now, I know this isn’t fair. After all, Oildale produced Merle Haggard, and it’s hard to top that. But Bakersfield has the brighter lights and a charm that neatly combines big-city flash with small town charm! And with taverns with...
by Christine | Jul 8, 2014 | Welcome Column
During the past few years we’ve all watched too many beloved musicians pass from the music scene. Their illnesses and subsequent loss has cost many of us in grief, especially when friends die too soon, struck down by illness that could have been prevented or...
by Christine | Jul 7, 2010 | Welcome Column
Gather ‘round chilluns – Uncle Bruce is gonna relate some heavy life wisdom on you here in the next 500 words or so. I’ve had a pretty interesting last couple of weeks, and it caused me to ponder some of the vagaries of the human condition. While we spend a lot of...
by Christine | Jul 13, 2016 | Welcome Column
Some jams, we play what we know with our best friends, and it’s like picking up a great comfortable conversation that may have began years – decades! – ago. How cool it that? It’s a magical thing, really! But some jams aren’t so comfortable – you...
by Christine | Jan 4, 2011 | Welcome Column
I think Lynn Quinones expressed my personal feelings most precisely on her Message Board post—“Say it Ain’t So!”. In fact, that was my reaction to Larry when he informed me of his decision to retire from the ADN columnist duties a few weeks before his...
by Christine | Jun 15, 2011 | Welcome Column
Ah, it’s THAT week. Every year at this time, while I slave away at my high paying, highly fulfilling day job, everybody else is off to Grass Valley. And because I’m so NOT at Grass Valley, it falls to me to keep an eye on the swanky CBA Headquarters, which occupies...
by Christine | Jul 19, 2017 | Welcome Column
This story should not be surprising to anyone who’s been to a couple of bluegrass festivals. Some years ago, I went to the Late Summer Bluegrass Festival in Plymouth and got into a fun jam – it was a good spot, nice rotating cast of good players. I was playing...
by Christine | May 26, 2015 | Welcome Column
Ah, it’s THAT week. Every year at this time, while I slave away at my high paying, highly fulfilling day job, everybody else is off to Grass Valley. And because I’m so NOT at Grass Valley, it falls to me to keep an eye on the swanky CBA Headquarters, which occupies...
by Christine | Jun 17, 2010 | Welcome Column
Well, it’s that very Special Week again. Father’s Day week – when I am the only guy left in the swanky offices of the California Bluegrass Association for the entire week. In the past four or so years since I’ve taken on the role of caretaker for the CBA headquarters...
by Christine | Jun 13, 2012 | Welcome Column
Once again, I find myself alone and a little frightened in the cavernous CBA offices during the week of Father’s Day. I, being neither retired, semi-retired, trust funded or otherwise independently wealthy, am compelled to work most of the week while everybody else is...
