by Christine | Oct 7, 2017 | Welcome Column
It is that time of year again. Yeah, I know you are all thinking about IBMA and while it is a wonderful time, that is not what I was talking about. Starting about two weeks before IBMA is the Jam Camp in Bristol TN/VA in conjunction with the Rhythm & Roots...
by Christine | Jun 2, 2017 | Welcome Column
Item 1: During January-March of 1963 (my freshman year at Hayward High) a strange phenomenon was occurring. President Kennedy, our youthful president, had chided Americans, especially the youth about being out of shape. Someone in his administration had come up with a...
by Christine | Aug 23, 2016 | Welcome Column
There is so much music in poetry and poetry in music (and I hope I don’t have to convince you of this!) that I just merge the two into one without thinking. I don’t worry about such things since I know that art is not physical reality. Toward the end of...
by Christine | Jun 26, 2018 | Welcome Column
Forgiveness – ah, divine art -is never took to stage.To see our self as others dois sure to just enrage.Why don’t they simply always knowwe meant to silent stayand not to call them ghastly namesand trash their happy days?- Charles BradyI’ve never really been a good...
by Christine | Aug 16, 2012 | Welcome Column
Once again the normally quiet Bolado Park at the San Bonito County Fairgrounds came alive with the sound of bluegrass music. I hope you didn’t miss this event, but if you did, mark your calendars for the second weekend in August, 2013 now! This is a “not to miss”...
by Christine | Jan 25, 2020 | Welcome Column
I have been sharing with you my memories, thoughts and dreams since December of 2015. Every write taught me something about myself that I didn’t think about or notice before. Every write a piece of me, self-deemed important enough to commit to ink. Every write with a...
by Christine | May 28, 2018 | Welcome Column
As those who have been reading my columns will probably know, last year I wrote and published a book with the title High Lonesome Below Sea Level: Faces and Stories of Bluegrass Music in the Netherlands. It features 56 full-page black-and-white portrait photographs...
by Christine | May 12, 2017 | Welcome Column
As those who have been reading my columns will probably know, last year I wrote and published a book with the title High Lonesome Below Sea Level: Faces and Stories of Bluegrass Music in the Netherlands. It features 56 full-page black-and-white portrait photographs...
by Christine | Nov 27, 2018 | Welcome Column
This is going to be about the gentle art of persuasion through the VOTING process.BUT FIRST – A WORD FROM MY HOUSE-MATE : If you are in or near San Francisco in December, you MUST NOT MISS: Lee Brady’s Country/Western Musical -“SOUTHERN LIGHTS,” which returns after...
by Christine | Sep 1, 2016 | Welcome Column
I purport the following to be an accurate accounting of a band, in multiple connotations of the word, playing two gigs in a week apart. All of the participants are receiving Social Security checks (on the dole so to speak.) No names are mentioned except mine. It was...
