by Christine | Mar 28, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note: a reprise of Dave’s interview with Larry Chung from April of 2018) Larry Chung is no stranger to Bay Area bluegrass circles. He is a music teacher and plays most every instrument at virtually every venue and festival in the area. Whether jamming at...
by Christine | Mar 26, 2021 | Welcome Column
Given pandemic binging, I seem to have finished Netflix. So, I have been scouting out other things to watch. Thought I would look for some bluegrass videos. Searching Netflix for ‘bluegrass’ turns up videos featuring Brad Paisley, Bob Dylan, and George Ezra. All of...
by Christine | Dec 20, 2015 | Welcome Column
Great Googly Moogly: utterance of great surprise; common in blues songs; made more popular by Frank Zappa.My problem with the whole “Big Tent, Small Tent” debate over Bluegrass music is that I’m probably what could be called a musical polymath. And no, that...
by Christine | Mar 23, 2016 | Welcome Column
Being the audacious so-and-so that I am, I contacted a friend last week and said, “Hey, why don’t I come visit you – can you put together a jam?”This friend who lives a few hours away, graciously accepted the challenge and generously added a gourmet dinner...
by Christine | Aug 1, 2013 | Welcome Column
If you didn’t know, last Thursday July 25 was National Tequila Day and I want to begin this month by thanking all of you who sent me cards and messages celebrating this holiday. This is a big one for me. Heck if I weren’t retired I’d take the day off. One of my...
by Christine | Dec 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
This week, a close friend of mine announced that he was going to have to close his music store in downtown Martinez. He has run the store for about 7 years, and it’s become a treasured part of our downtown. Remember in the Andy Griffith show, where Floyd’s Barber Shop...
by Christine | May 8, 2014 | Welcome Column
Shortly after I retired in 2002 I began taking my mother to lunch three days a week at the C.C. Cafe, the senior lunch program in the little town of Crockett run by the Meals on Wheels Senior Outreach people in Contra Costa County. When I saw how much she enjoyed it,...
by Christine | Oct 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
I was taking a nap on the couch the other day with iTunes playing on the T.V. through the computer, and I’m off in dream land when I hear Bean Creek playing Dixie Darlin’, and one eye half opens and it watches the T.V. as though it’s really watching Pete Hicks playin’...
by Christine | Jul 11, 2014 | Welcome Column
We’re in the middle of festival season. That time of year when the sun shine brightest, the birds sing the loudest and anticipation is at it’s highest level since when you were a kid on the night before Christmas. I look forward to festival season like I used to look...
by Christine | Nov 28, 2013 | Welcome Column
In my 75+ years of life I have been witness to several miracles, buttoday marks a miracle of time that I will never see again, not inthis life on earth. It was pointed out in the news last night, thattoday is the first day that Thanksgiving and Hanukkah have fell...
