by Christine | Oct 25, 2014 | Welcome Column
The team I’ve belonged to for the last ten years or so told me they were a football team. I was sort of new at the game and wasn’t sure I’d really benefit that much from joining the team. I debated it for awhile and vacillated back and forth. After...
by Christine | Dec 23, 2013 | Welcome Column
I love music – listening to it, playing it, and seeing others receive the joy it brings. And giving the gift of music to others is a joy and delight. In 2011, I was fortunate to become a board member of the Foundation for Bluegrass Music. Let me tell you about this...
by Christine | Jul 5, 2006 | Welcome Column
I have had this nightmare more than once, and sometimes I’m not even sleeping. I’m doing something – could be anything – and a call comes and it’s somebody saying “Hey where ARE you! We have a gig today!” I had a gig recently, and called one of the band members to let...
by Christine | May 31, 2011 | Welcome Column
I had a disturbing experience last evening. It actually kept me awake lying in bed thinking about it; what’s worse, this morning, about ten minutes after waking up, I suddenly remembered the experience and it’s put a pall over the day. Let me tell you about it. I have...
by Christine | Sep 13, 2016 | Welcome Column
The Good old Fashioned – Cliff ComptonI went to the Good old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival again this year. It’s become a good habit. One of them happy habits. One of those day’s circled on the calendar. One of those good reasons to be alive.I remember the first...
by Christine | Jan 16, 2018 | Welcome Column
I haven’t been playing my mandolin much in the past few years. Being in a band (playing banjo, banjo, banjo) will do that to you. But I miss the mando; mandolins are cool in so many ways.The sound can be piercing when you are playing lead and thunky when you are...
by Christine | Dec 13, 2007 | Welcome Column
I haven’t been playing my mandolin much in the past few years. Being in a band (playing banjo, banjo, banjo) will do that to you. But I miss the mando; mandolins are cool in so many ways. The sound can be piercing when you are playing lead and thunky when you...
by Christine | Oct 31, 2011 | Welcome Column
That’s what my ol pard Vern Williams called this story that I’m going to relate to all of you this month. Going back a lot of years is necessary to set the stage for this story, and I’m sure you will agree when I get to the end of it. I guess this...
by Christine | Sep 7, 2015 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–This being the first Monday of the month you were all poised, I’m certain, to find a message from our President, the Honorable Darby Brandli, but due to a little screw up in which her monthly column was posted last week instead of...
by Christine | Mar 17, 2017 | Welcome Column
That’s what my ol pard Vern Williams called this story that I’m going to relate to all of you this month. Going back a lot of years is necessary to set the stage for this story, and I’m sure you will agree when I get to the end of it. I guess this...
