by Christine | Jun 23, 2020 | Welcome Column
Somebody once said, “Writing is easy; all you have to do is sit down and open up a vein!” I say that sometimes it is a matter of scribbling and cussing! In High School, my English teachers praised my ideas and cussed my handwriting. Early in my writing,...
by Christine | Aug 8, 2008 | Welcome Column
Thankfully I’ve resisted the temptation to dedicate this morning’s Welcome to the opening day of the Summer Olympics in Beijing. I say thankfully because I know less about the Olympics than my sheep, which means that what ever I’d have written would have been mostly...
by Christine | Dec 20, 2019 | Welcome Column
I’m here, wrapping up another semester, and getting ready to hit the road (well, the tracks — Amtrak, that is) for the Northwest to see the family for the holidays. It’s that time of year when we’re all beset by the busy-ness of the season....
by Christine | Nov 18, 2012 | Welcome Column
You know you are scratching for ideas when you start brain-riffing at 11PM Saturday night on trying to write a Sunday column around a play on words for “jam” and come up with a column about recipes for making jam…..as in bluegrass jam, which led to me thinking about...
by Christine | Aug 15, 2015 | Welcome Column
Good day, Bluegrasser. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to explore the new and simplified CBA website, and comprehend its dazzling features and expansive content. You will marvel at the panoramic photos, the streamlined user interface, and pretty much...
by Christine | May 10, 2010 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: We’re sorry for not getting Bert’s Welcome posted yesterday but, hey, what’s twenty-four hours among friends? As usual, Bert’s written a good one, so enjoy.) Today is Mother’s Day. Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms out there! And I hope that all of...
by Christine | Dec 29, 2017 | Welcome Column
Since this is a fifth Friday and we have no regularly scheduled Welcomer to welcome, I thought I’d take advantage of the slot to make a brief plea for some volunteers. Here’s the deal–we have some empty Welcome Column slots and it’s time to...
by Christine | Feb 11, 2011 | Welcome Column
I had to drive to Stockton today, and then on to Modesto. I had the ipod on shuffle, and music was the perfect companion. My tastes are eclectic, everything from John Prine to Segovia, and that can startle you out of your reverie, when Alison Brown is followed by Big...
by Christine | Jan 7, 2010 | Welcome Column
We’ve all heard this in one jam or another. The music may roll along for hours, with an emphasis on traditional bluegrass music, when some brave soul will announce shyly (or not), “I’d like to sing a song that I wrote.” Even in a jam where the emphasis...
by Christine | Mar 20, 2020 | Welcome Column
Campout, canceled.Jams, canceled.Concerts, canceled.Lessons, canceled.What’s a bluegrass extrovert (or even introvert) to do in the times of COVID-19? Zoom.Zoom is video application that allows you to meet in real time, chat, maybe even take or give a music lesson. It...
