by Christine | Dec 11, 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 | Nov 3, 2007 | Welcome Column
The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) knows how to produce a convention and throw a party and Bruno and I registered early in the year to attend. We did not know at the time of registration our daughter would be producing a grandchild in October, the...
by Christine | Feb 25, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, I guess we all survived the stormy weekend, eh? Sure will be nice to check into Hotel Springtime, but I guess we can always use more rain to fill up our aquifers and build up that snow pack. Come summertime the carwash-and-lawn-watering-police won’t be...
by Christine | Sep 3, 2014 | Welcome Column
Some of the musical things I do are so regular, they could be called routine. I have weekly rehearsals, and there’s a twice-a-month gig that’s been part of my life for about 10 years now. Like any routine, there are days when I don’t actually want to go. I’ll have a...
by Christine | May 15, 2019 | Welcome Column
Some of the musical things I do are so regular, they could be called routine. I have weekly rehearsals, and tonight is Whiskey Wednesday – this is the 20th year of the Whiskey Brothers playing twice a month at the Albatross Pub in Berkeley! Like any...
by Christine | Jan 29, 2020 | Welcome Column
Some of the musical things I do are so regular, they could be called routine. I have weekly rehearsals, and there’s a twice-a-month gig that’s been part of my life for about 10 years now. Like any routine, there are days when I don’t actually want to go. I’ll have a...
by Christine | Mar 8, 2013 | Welcome Column
Some years back I was driving the road from Yakima Washington on my way to Portland Oregon and on the pass over the mountain there was R.V. that had wrecked and caught on fire, blocking the highway and stopping traffic for miles in both directions. After sitting a...
by Christine | Aug 9, 2014 | Welcome Column
Chances are when your obituary is written you won’t be the one who did it. And of course there is no chance that you will read it, unless you know something that I don’t. Ninety nine and 99/100% of us don’t write an autobiography, so most of the people that think they...
by Christine | Feb 18, 2015 | Welcome Column
It’s finally happened – I don’t know what to write about. So, dear readers, instead of the cogent, tightly plotted and brilliant essay you’ve come to expect from this column, it’s going to be a rambling wreck of random thoughts, spilling out like salty tears on...
by Christine | Aug 27, 2018 | Welcome Column
Years ago, comedian Woody Allen gave a most unfunny interview in which he advocated “capital punishment” for movie producers who had the audacity to colorize classic black-and-white films in order to make them more appealing to modern audiences....
