by Christine | Dec 31, 2015 | Welcome Column
Hello everyone, this is Kay Nichols with an update on the website. Rick’s computer has died and, as you can imagine, he is in a frenzy to get it fixed! Needless to say this site will be a bit rocky without him for a few days. Bear with us and...
by Christine | Feb 17, 2016 | Welcome Column
The old adage is, we only use 10% of our brains. So, that spawned all sorts of methods (and products you could buy, and drugs you could try) to help you use more of your brain. I have seen more recent research that seems to show that it’s not that simple. The brain is...
by Christine | Mar 20, 2013 | Welcome Column
On occasion, I pause to ponder the miracles of the human brain. We equate brain power with intelligence, and intelligence with the ability to make one’s way in the world, and solve the challenges that present themselves along the way. That’s certainly important, but...
by Christine | Mar 31, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note—Here’s what was on Cliff’s mind in ther fall of 2009.) 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...
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...
