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...
by Christine | Apr 22, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Here at the Daily Welcome Column desk we refer to the old man’s pieces as ageless. The Great Bluegrass Joke is a good readson why. RC)That’s what my ol pard Vern Williams called this story that I’m going to relate to all of you this month. Going...
by Christine | Jul 8, 2016 | Welcome Column
At the fathers day festival, walking through the fairgrounds, something important was missing. Walking down the gravel road remembering good times and old friends, it saddened me to notice that the spot where Pat and George Calhouns R.V. used to be, had an...
by Christine | Feb 4, 2015 | Welcome Column
Nobody loves gear and instruments more than I, and I have often waxed poetically on the joys of fine guitars, banjos, fiddle, basses and the like. That love burns strong. The recent find of a Lloyd Loar mandolin in some old barn was fascinating – can you...
by Christine | May 9, 2012 | Welcome Column
How many times have you attended a concert (regardless of the genre), and at some time during the performance, they announce the presence of a “special guest” who’s going to join the band for a song or two. Depending on the stature of the special guest, there may be...
