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...
by Christine | Mar 9, 2017 | Welcome Column
At the the Turlock campout we ended up right next to Jim Genaw and Mikki Feeney. Besides a lot of excellent music, we enjoyed just hanging out at their camp, fondly remembering the now-defunct festival at the Shasta County Fairgrounds in Anderson where we met about 11...
by Christine | Jul 19, 2014 | Welcome Column
At this very moment, I’m in my “Bluegrasser-On-the-Road” mode, working at the Northwest String Summit festival, way out in the deep, deep, un-wi-fi-i-fied woods of Hornings Hideout in North Plains, Oregon. The lineup feels like the holy grail of...
by Christine | Oct 27, 2011 | Welcome Column
Most of the time when we have a dream, we have trouble remembering the whole dream. Usually, it takes somethang to trigger part of the dream, and then, slowly we remember all of it. A couple of years ago, I woke up one morning, and I remembered this whole dream jes as...
by Christine | Nov 16, 2010 | Welcome Column
I love bluegrass festivals. The excitement rises in me as we near the grounds of the coming weekend’s festival, usually but not always somewhere in rural America. We round a corner and see a blue sign with an arrow saying “Bluegrass Festival.” A flag waves...
