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...
by Christine | Aug 28, 2015 | Welcome Column
Words are tricky little things. They can seem so unimportant and yet sometimes even tiny words can have huge meaning. “Fiddle” for instance is the biggest word I know and yet it only has 6 letters. The interesting thing about words is that songs are full of them....
by Christine | Sep 26, 2019 | Welcome Column
I’m happy when readers send me questions about topics they are wrestling with, especially if the answers might interest other folks as well. Long-time Bay Area musician Tomás Enguídanos wants to know about combining acoustic and electric instruments for a...
by Christine | Mar 31, 2020 | Welcome Column
Working with acoustic and electric instrumentsI focused much of last month’s column on questions raised by Bay Area musician Tomás Enguídanos. Tomás said he’d had difficulty blending the sounds of acoustic instruments with electric instruments while producing...
by Christine | Jun 25, 2018 | Welcome Column
I like to drop in on workshops when we’re at a festivals. Many well-organized events schedule a series of hour long workshops conducted by well-known and highly skilled musicians designed to teach and/or demonstrate a few skills to less skilled people eager to...
by Christine | Mar 28, 2017 | Welcome Column
I like to drop in on workshops when we’re at a festivals. Many well-organized events schedule a series of hour long workshops conducted by well-known and highly skilled musicians designed to teach and/or demonstrate a few skills to less skilled people eager to...
by Christine | Apr 10, 2010 | Welcome Column
I like to drop in on workshops when we’re at a festivals. Many well-organized events schedule a series of hour long workshops conducted by well-known and highly skilled musicians designed to teach and/or demonstrate a few skills to less skilled people eager to...
