by Christine | Feb 13, 2018 | Welcome Column
In my April, 2017 column I wrote about a big journey I was preparing to take: releasing an album of my original instrumental music. In 2018. I wrote that I’d inform my readers from time to time about the new world that is music distribution and sales today, and about...
by Christine | Aug 2, 2012 | Welcome Column
My best friend, bandmate (and spouse), Linda, will often point out a restaurant, coffeehouse, bar, whatever, and tell me I should go drop off a demo CD and some band publicity because, in her opinion, they would be making a very poor business decision not to hire us....
by Christine | Mar 17, 2016 | Welcome Column
I was at a show a couple of weeks ago and as I was watching the band, I started to think about all the places their instruments have been. I got to wondering about the life of an instrument, separately from the life of the musician that plays it. I wondered, what was...
by Christine | Feb 29, 2012 | Welcome Column
One of the things that’s really fashionable in bluegrass music is to have a good old guitar. It’s generally accepted that fine, handmade instruments get better with age, and if you’ve ever played a 50’s or 40’s Martin dreadnaught, you’d be hard pressed to disagree...
by Christine | Jan 30, 2010 | Welcome Column
A couple days ago I received a call from Dan Hayes, Executive Director of the IBMA back in Nashville. Dan called to chat about some high tech initiatives the organization is looking to undertake. During our talk, Dan mentioned the number of professional IBMA members...
by Christine | Jul 21, 2020 | Welcome Column
Where Have All the CBA Welcome Columnists Gone?Where have all the California Bluegrass Association’s Welcome Columnists gone, long time passing?Where have all the CBA columnists gone, long time ago?Where have all the California CBA columnists gone?Gone to obscurity,...
by Christine | Jul 5, 2012 | Welcome Column
Wow, what happened to June! One week in heaven and two weeks of business travel (hell). Fortunately there were a few gigs interspersed with the travel that while fun, certainly added to the whirlwind that was June. I really need those 5 week months. I am just not that...
by Christine | Dec 13, 2011 | Welcome Column
To start with, I want to say I have no deep concerns about the future of bluegrass, whatever form it might be seen to be taking. Whether folks insist on maintaining that bluegrass can only be a replication of the forms, instrumentation, subject matter, and tone of the...
by Christine | Apr 27, 2015 | Welcome Column
If you’re wondering “where the flowers is”, I can tell you many of them are in full bloom right here in San Diego County. Spring has sprung these last couple of weeks, and, my, oh my, the flowers are a-bloomin’ just about everywhere you look – even...
by Christine | Dec 14, 2017 | Welcome Column
My friend Steve and I were invited to play for a Christmas party and dinner at The West Point Inn on Mt. Tamalpais last week.The inn is an enchanted place. It was built in 1904 as a stop on the curvy railroad that wound its way up the mountain from 1896 until...
