by Christine | Dec 14, 2012 | Welcome Column
I’ve lived sixty one years, and would like to live another sixty one. By my calculations that means I’ve lived through sixty one Christmas’s. I really like Christmas. Maybe it’s just where I’m sitting, but it seems to me that on that day, once a year, the world’s a...
by Christine | Dec 23, 2011 | Welcome Column
Sometimes things happen that are bigger than life. It was last Christmas, and Deb Livermore, Armondo Garcia, Chef Mike, a saxophone playing friend of Armondo’s and myself decided to spread a little holiday cheer. Mike can sing those syrupy Christmas songs like Andy...
by Christine | Dec 29, 2011 | 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 17, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Third Saturdays are normally Don Denison days but, as you probably know, Don has been hospitalized for a while now and has missed a few months. The good news is that Bob Thomas posted an update on Don yesterday on the Message Board...
by Christine | Feb 25, 2019 | Welcome Column
The United Methodical Church for the Preservation of the True Definition of Bluegrass Music is located in an out of the way, off the beaten track, small town near Weaverville, California. The name of the town is Monroe Town Junction (its Sister City is Lake Wobegon,...
by Christine | Nov 26, 2015 | Welcome Column
Daily grist; “One man with courage makes a majority.”– Andrew Jackson, 1767 to 1845. Seventh American president.The circle is been severely stressed and tested, but remains unbroken. We have all heard the song Will the circle be unbroken,...
by Christine | Feb 20, 2011 | Welcome Column
There’s just something about a gig. Maybe it’s like a wedding and we’re all serial brides. It starts with the engagement…..”will you come play???”. Yes, of course, we’d love too! And we’ve got a split mind…one side says “It’s about time!” and the other side “Awww,...
by Christine | Apr 14, 2016 | Welcome Column
A very important family function will keep me away from Saturday’s opening night at The Back Room, a new, intimate, acoustic-oriented performance space in Berkeley. The space has been developed by Sam Rudin, who has had a long career in the Bay Area as a solo pianist,...
by Christine | May 4, 2013 | Welcome Column
Last month was the time of the most insulting awards show for the bluegrass community. The CMT awards consist of a night where the greatest current “country” music is presented and is the time of year when the greatest “country” artists perform and win awards for...
by Christine | Apr 15, 2019 | Welcome Column
We all want to be cool. That’s how we grow up, jockeying within our own peer groups to maximize our self esteem. Being cool is well, cool! Now that I’m past sixty years of age, it appears to me (and everybody else) that I’m not all that cool any more. My two teenagers...
