by Christine | Mar 27, 2016 | Welcome Column
Today’s column will be an experiment for me to see how many people read on Sunday. My good friend Mikki brought up an interesting thought on the message board, “Stories.” Let’s see how many interesting stories appear on the message board....
by Christine | Feb 13, 2011 | Welcome Column
I really love Old Time music. I love to play it, I love to sing it and I love to learn about it. One thing I love to do on the CBA website is to check out the Old Time Rambler. Geff Crawford does an excellent job profiling the legends of old time fiddle and banjo...
by Christine | Jul 10, 2019 | Welcome Column
Sometimes, it’s an uphill battle trying to explain the appeal of bluegrass to the uninitiated. I remember reading an interview with Carlos Santana, and he was being asked about his history with other musical icons of the 60’s and 70’s. The interviewer brought up Jerry...
by Christine | Feb 9, 2017 | Welcome Column
This getting old thing is a royal pain in the butt, I’m here to tell you. Actually at the moment it’s a royal pain in the back, as a coughing fit I had some weeks ago when I was deep into a winter cold seems to have strained a muscle back there.And I’ve got a...
by Christine | Oct 18, 2019 | Welcome Column
Yes, it’s just October, and it seems like the 2019 Father’s Day Festival in Grass Valley is still right there in the rearview mirror, but in fact, lots of folks are busily at work putting together a great experience for the 2020 festival week. CBA Summer Music...
by Christine | Apr 25, 2011 | Welcome Column
The debate rages on within the CBA – should the focus of the organization be on preserving the most traditional forms of bluegrass, gospel, and old-time music, or should a wider range of styles be included in the mix? Is our mission to stubbornly insist on Stanley...
by Christine | Mar 21, 2016 | Welcome Column
Suppose a close longtime friend, whom you have not seen for ten years, calls you up on the telephone. You pick up the phone and your friend starts talking without saying their name. It wouldn’t take you very much time to realize whose voice it was on the other side of...
by Christine | Feb 23, 2012 | Welcome Column
Every year around the last of Feb., or the first of March I always remember two of the closest, and bestest friends I’ll ever have in my life. It was about this time of the year that I lost boh of them. The first one to enter into my life was 3 years old when we...
by Christine | Mar 28, 2020 | Welcome Column
Every year around the last of Feb., or the first of March I alwaysremember two of the closest, and bestest friends I’ll ever have inmy life. It was about this time of the year that I lost boh ofthem. The first one to enter into my life was 3 years old when...
by Christine | Nov 28, 2009 | Welcome Column
Homemade. Made from scratch. Made by hand. When food goes through your mother’s or your grandmother’s kitchen, taking its own sweet time, being chopped, basted, fried, toasted, and then set on a hand-crocheted hot pad on the sunny country-kitchen table, you have a...
