by Christine | Jun 30, 2011 | Welcome Column
I’m composing this on Thursday from the Grass Valley Father’s Day Festival – and if you at the Festival on Saturday, when this publishes, feel free to come by and say hi! I’m actually assuming that you’all are too busy jamming and LIVING the festival to read a...
by Christine | Apr 20, 2010 | Welcome Column
Well, we had quite a Spring Campout this year, and a remarkable CBA board meeting to top it off. At the end of the meeting, J.D. Rhynes announced that he was stepping down from his seat on the board. After nineteen and a half years of dedicated service our friend and...
by Christine | Dec 28, 2012 | Welcome Column
I hope that each and everyone one of you is enjoying a restful and peaceful week with friends and loved ones. If you’re a self-employed person like me, you’ll no doubt relate to how hard it is to pull out of work mode for very long at this time of year. Here’s a...
by Christine | Feb 11, 2015 | Welcome Column
It happened again – my shirt exploded yesterday. I have a dress shirt that I really like, and I had a big meeting scheduled, so I had this shirt on. I went to brush my hair and bam! The shirt exploded – completely torn in the right shoulder blade area. I...
by Christine | Jul 9, 2020 | Welcome Column
As we mentioned in the May Bluegrass Breakdown, the printed newsletter will concentrate on timely information, current events, and some short form new and legacy columns. And we promised then that longer form columns, photos, in-depth interviews, less timely news...
by Christine | Jul 31, 2019 | Welcome Column
It’s an honor and a privilege to be a contributing and regular Welcome Columnist for the CBA website for – um, quite a few years now. As much as I’ve enjoyed writing the weekly Wednesday column, I have also enjoyed the other Welcome columns as well. I...
by Christine | Jul 29, 2018 | Welcome Column
Your web master (me) is treating himself to four days of non-stop music, frivolity and fellowship at this year’s Rivertunes Music Camp. Since at present we have no back-up manager for cbaweb.org we’ll remain static until Thursday morning…no new news,...
by Christine | Nov 30, 2018 | Welcome Column
We DID need rain, but the highly anticipated precipitation is affecting Webmaster Rick Cornish’s internet access, so bear with him, he’ll back in the driver’s seat as soon as the fickle Internet Gods do their reluctant magic. We apologize for...
by Christine | Oct 12, 2016 | Welcome Column
[blast from the past]If only I was born earlier. I could have seen Bill Monroe in his prime, Jim and Jesse with their natural hair color, and Jimmy Martin as a spry, brash young man. I could have been involved in the Bay Area bluegrass scene back when it was a...
by Christine | Jul 26, 2012 | Welcome Column
If only I was born earlier. I could have seen Bill Monroe in his prime, Jim and Jesse with their natural hair color, and Jimmy Martin as a spry, brash young man. I could have been involved in the Bay Area bluegrass scene back when it was a well-kept secret, and hung...
