by Christine | Apr 14, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, The campout was cooooooool. The weather was not – it was perfect. Man, the only thing I don’t like about Turlock is the noise. Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to love trains, being a country goober, and I kind of do. But there’s a limit and those things...
by Christine | Apr 1, 2015 | Welcome Column
Gateway to the Central Valley and gateway to the summer, for bluegrass fans in California. The CBA has held their spring campout here at the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds for quite a few years running now. It’s fairly centrally located, especially for folks living...
by Christine | Mar 12, 2017 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–Last Friday we in inadvertently posted Cliff’s Welcome column and omitted the first paragraph. To remedy the situation we’ve re-posting the entire article this morning. RC)Pete Seeger wrote a song some years back,...
by Christine | Mar 10, 2017 | Welcome Column
Turn Turn TurnPete SeegerTo everything – turn, turn, turnThere is a season – turn, turn, turnAnd a time to every purpose under heavenA time to be born, a time to dieA time to plant, a time to reapA time to kill, a time to healA time to laugh, a time to...
by Christine | Apr 24, 2016 | Welcome Column
One of the very first things I heard on Ray Edlund’s show, “Pig in a Pen,” was a field recording of E.C. and Orna Ball playing “Jenny Jenkins” and “Pretty Polly” in 1937. They were made for the Library of Congress by...
by Christine | Jul 22, 2019 | Welcome Column
Life is so full of important decisions. What’s important differs, of course, by circumstances. The decision over which girl you ask to the prom is supremely important when you’re 16. But as you age, things get more real. In the corporate world, the best leaders...
by Christine | Aug 6, 2016 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s’ Note–Taken from 2013 but still true today) Dear friends,Happy Monday morning. Half the clocks in our house say it’s an hour later, so I’m living in a world of “Hey! I’ve got an extra hour to live my life!”Before I begin my welcome...
by Christine | Oct 4, 2019 | Welcome Column
What happened in October of 1962 has forever been burned into my brain. In October 1962 as we faced off with Cuba and the Russians in a stare down that almost brought about a nuclear war. Despite our faults and egos sanity prevailed. What follows is an...
by Christine | Feb 22, 2020 | Welcome Column
(Author’s note: My life changed for the better on September 25, 2008 when I got this e mail from Rick Cornish. I had sent Rick a little vignette because I felt sorry for him and the other welcome columnists who had to write columns every day, rain or shine. I admired...
by Christine | Nov 23, 2020 | Welcome Column
(From 2014)Dear Friends,This is a happy place, this CBA website. These are the art of enjoyment and the enjoyment of art, these events we produce here at the largest bluegrass organization in the world. While our songs frequently deal in loss, our mode is far from...
