by Christine | Feb 17, 2014 | Welcome Column
Most people know what ginseng is. It’s an herb, prized for centuries by the Chinese and you see it all the time these days as an ingredient in tea, energy drinks and cold remedies. What many people do not know is that ginseng grows all over the northern hemisphere,...
by Christine | Sep 14, 2020 | 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 18, 2010 | Welcome Column
I recently received the following email, which somehow made it through all my spam and junk-email filters: “Geoff, The trap, I’m sure you’ve now come to realize, is that any time you do something for the CBA, the CBA is immediately back at you. And our Welcome...
by Christine | Mar 25, 2018 | Welcome Column
The annual WinterGrass Festival, held in Bellevue, WA (just east of Seattle) is my late-winter acoustic music oasis and seasonal bridge. It’s the first leg of a three-state musical extravaganza that caps off my winter and gives me a firm shove into spring. This year’s...
by Christine | Jul 16, 2018 | Welcome Column
The Daily Grist:I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree. (from Trees by Joyce Kilmer)Trees are very special plants to me. Often when I stare in wonder at a soaring redwood or stately elm I recall the lines above which I learned in childhood. When it...
by Christine | Aug 24, 2014 | Welcome Column
The drought continues to be a frequent topic of conversation this summer. It is wreaking so much havoc in our beautiful state of California. The forests and grasslands are so very parched but the electrical storms that bring summer rains are sparking forest fires from...
by Christine | May 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
It was the trees that changed, the too many to count trees, unless you had a great deal of extra time on your hands. This tall mass of living trees on the eighty acre parcel of land became not what they once were. The change was, indirectly, caused by the humans who...
by Christine | May 3, 2018 | Welcome Column
Last month on 1st Thursday, I explored a theory proposed by some Brits that offered that playing gigs extends your life. I’m sure you all remember that after minutes of the extensive research and based on my own gig experiences that this theory was…..what’s the...
by Christine | Aug 8, 2016 | Welcome Column
All readers of this article today had their introduction to bluegrass in their own seemingly unique way, but not really. I, the special young man that I am, did have the unique experience of hearing bluegrass for the first time at festivals like Grass Valley Father’s...
by Christine | Oct 10, 2014 | Welcome Column
I was walking through the tent camping on the party side of grass valley, and I saw her coming toward me singing. Just singing out there in front of God and everybody with no guitar or nothing, just looking at me with a big smile and singing. She walked up to me,...
