by Christine | Oct 9, 2009 | Welcome Column
I was fourteen in Kansas City Missouri, living in a three story stone house off of Van Brunt and St. John, and I’d just bought my harmony arched topped guitar from a pawnshop downtown. Our house was bigger than we needed, and we didn’t have much money, so my dad...
by Christine | Apr 22, 2007 | Welcome Column
A Guest Column from Elena Corey Some time ago I got enthused about letting Andy Griffith know that bluegrass, country and traditional-music folks appreciate him. We owe him a hefty debt for building plots into his television series around our music. The least I could...
by Christine | Mar 1, 2008 | Welcome Column
Utah Phillips Dear friends, Happy Saturday! I traded the traveling Rick Cornish today for my usual Monday Welcome. Looks like a beautiful spring like day, so I’d better hustle with my literary duties and get out there and enjoy it. Today I looked in my email inbox and...
by Christine | Feb 14, 2016 | Welcome Column
It’s Valentine’s Day, what shall we play? Probably not the only bluegrass tune I know of that actually has the word valentine in the lyrics:You can send me pretty flowers, you can sen me valentinesSend me letters every day but it won’t payLeap to my desire, nothing...
by Christine | Feb 3, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note—Marcos, who wrote his riveting column on the Super Bowl just day before yesterday, is back with a piece he recently contributed a piece to the popular Modesto View magazine on, what else, roots music. It’s a good ‘un.) Long dirt roads connecting small...
by Christine | May 2, 2008 | Welcome Column
May 2008 President’s Message The California Bluegrass Association is an all volunteer organization. The elected Directors and appointed Officers all have year round responsibilities and some of these jobs are huge. The organization would wither and die without our...
by Christine | Nov 18, 2009 | Welcome Column
Not surprisingly, there’s a lot more going on in the bluegrass world during the middle of the year. The weather is nicer, more bands are on the road, so the choices of bluegrass related activities are many, and deep. On a given weekend, you can go to outdoor festivals...
by Christine | May 26, 2011 | Welcome Column
As I sat here trying to figure out jes what I’d write for this coming Thursday’s welcome message, a few lil’ random thoughts came to mind, so I figured why not tell ’em whilst I can still remember ’em. Natcherally they include my ol...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2013 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, The Bluegrass Breakdown publication should be in your mailboxes any day now, after a month “off” due to the combined October and November issues. It was hard getting back into the swing of putting together the massive tome my predecessor turned a humble...
by Christine | Sep 24, 2017 | Welcome Column
Greetings folks! Well, summer has come and gone so it’s time to start thinking about the next year’s Grass Valley, right? Band applications for Vern’s Stage 2018 at the Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival are open from now until November 15, 2017. Read below for the...
