by Christine | Dec 20, 2017 | Welcome Column
Sorry I am late with this – I’ve been busy! Read on (flashback column from two years ago -seems even more timely now!)I am just about to finish another season of the best job in the world: Playing Santa for our town. Martinez has a little red house...
by Christine | Nov 19, 2014 | Welcome Column
What is the future of bluegrass? What do we want it to be? For some, bluegrass should progress in a thick, straight line, embracing, celebrating and emulating the sounds and songs of the beloved pioneers of the music. Banjo playing must sound like Earl Scruggs, or JD...
by Christine | Sep 28, 2012 | Welcome Column
I haven’t started to pack my bags or change my banjo strings as I write this on Thursday night but by this time tomorrow, I should be in North Adams, Massachusetts for FreshGrass, an exciting new progressive bluegrass festival held on the grounds and in the converted...
by Christine | Apr 25, 2016 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST…”Our passions are the true phoenixes – when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.”- Johann von Goethe After 15 years, one annual Southern California bluegrass music festival did not happen last month. The City of Temecula...
by Christine | Sep 28, 2011 | Welcome Column
Anyone that plays music semi-seriously will encounter, sooner or later, the Big Three Rings of the Musical Circus. The first ring is jamming. It’s how most of us start out and how we learn to play consistently, and interact with other musicians. As I’ve said before,...
by Christine | Mar 6, 2014 | Welcome Column
Did you know that Wikipedia doesn’t have a listing for Bluegrass Bands? There are listings for Classical Bands, Jazz Bands and Pop/Rock Bands. There are references for Brass Bands, Marching Bands, Military Bands, Mariachi Bands and even Jug Bands but no reference for...
by Christine | Apr 16, 2018 | Welcome Column
I know all about black holes. Stephen Hawking, the noted physicist who recently passed away, brought black holes into the public consciousness but i consider myself the real expert (at least in a practical sense). Black holes are super massive collections of matter....
by Christine | Mar 22, 2017 | Welcome Column
It’s throwback March – this column first appeared in 2006I have always enjoyed reading the sage wisdom of B. Judd on the CBA Website, and I went in search of even more wisdom. Figuring the nexus of Bluegrass wisdom would emanate from the Bluegrass state, I...
by Christine | Feb 10, 2012 | Welcome Column
I was jamming down at the 48 hr Jam at the doubletree in Bakersfield when one of the highway 65 guys hollered “Do a bluesy one!”, and I don’t have to be asked twice because I like the blue in bluegrass. So I let one fly, and it felt as good as it always does. I...
by Christine | Aug 8, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–George takes a break today so we run a 2014 column that pretty well defines what happiness means to our friend. RC)What makes one happy changes over the years. As a child a new toy, or going to the Saturday matinee (feature film, serial and...
