by Christine | Feb 4, 2018 | Welcome Column
Since the Bluegrass festival season is winding down, and the weather’s cooling off, it seems like this is the time to prepare our musical instruments for the cold off-season. For hints and tips on this process, I consulted with Martha Stewart, who introduced me to...
by Christine | Jan 6, 2010 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Bruce Campbell, the rat, is bobbing on a luxury liner somewhere in the tropics this morning. What better of his Welcomes to resurrect than a piece on winterizing instruments. We have it on good authority that our friend will be back here shivering by...
by Christine | Mar 9, 2006 | Welcome Column
Since the Bluegrass festival season is winding down, and the weather’s cooling off, it seems like this is the time to prepare our musical instruments for the cold off-season. For hints and tips on this process, I consulted with Martha Stewart, who introduced me to...
by Christine | Nov 22, 2009 | Welcome Column
This Thursday most of us will be celebrating Thanksgiving. I think it’s great to set a special day aside for this observance but even more important to try to find something each day to be thankful for. Along those lines, I am thankful for all my CBA friends and all...
by Christine | Jul 4, 2010 | Welcome Column
His mouth was dry. His heart beat so hard that the young Massachusetts’s man was sure that those crouching at his elbows behind the earthen works could hear it and think him cowardly. Was anyone else as terrified? To the young militia man’s left was the Mystic River....
by Christine | Aug 19, 2009 | Welcome Column
It was forty years ago this month ? the legendary Woodstock festival. It was possibly the most iconic event in American history in the 20th century. Like any major event, especially after nearly half a century, there?s a ton of mythology surrounding the event, and...
by Christine | Sep 4, 2016 | Welcome Column
Twelve years have passed now, since the Bluegrass Bug cornered me and said, ”You like this stuff, eh?” After this much time, one might be very well adapted to an assortment of instruments used to play Bluegrass music. Well, that is the...
by Christine | Feb 25, 2018 | Welcome Column
So I asked Lynn, well in advance, what she’d like for Valentines Day. She batted her lashes, smiled the smile that made me fall in love way back in the last century, and said, I’d like a sea cruise. Do you think we can afford it, I asked, thinking about...
by Christine | Apr 2, 2020 | Welcome Column
It’s the first Thursday of April so I guess I’m up. My hook for this month is going to be woodshedding. Long time readers will know that I have visited this topic quite a few times in the past and just to be clear we are not discussing practicing or rehearsing but...
by Christine | Feb 11, 2016 | Welcome Column
Some time back David Lange started a thread on the message board about the anniversary of Woodstock, that seminal event wedged into the psyche of a large percentage of people my age and above. And in reading the messages I started remembering stuff that I hadn’t...
