by Christine | May 20, 2012 | Welcome Column
Its nights like this I wish I didn’t have to write a Welcome column. Got home this afternoon, fixed my grill, which needed a new burner, threw on a couple of lamb chops, lit a fire in the fire pan, sitting here with a glass of wine and “groan” sitting down to take...
by Christine | Mar 26, 2020 | Welcome Column
Rhetorically speaking, how is old time music related to bluegrass? I said rhetorically because no one needs to answer but hoping instead to stir the pot enough to ask another (rhetorical) question, is old time music related to jug band music? I hope so because I am...
by Christine | Jun 5, 2014 | Welcome Column
What a treat, I get today’s welcome column and it will probably be one the last ones anyone reads before heading out to the Nevada County Fairgrounds. Actually, Linda and I are not getting to the festival until Wednesday morning this year as we have a family wedding...
by Christine | Feb 3, 2008 | Welcome Column
Yesterday, Thursday, I turned 49 years old. Not the milestone that next year will be I’m sure, but it’s plenty old enough for now. It is interesting to note that since my wife’s birthday is on December 1st, and mine is on January 31st, for exactly two months each year...
by Christine | Nov 5, 2020 | Welcome Column
The day after tomorrow I complete my 71st revolution around the sun and for about 2/3 of those years, I’ve owned an upright bass. I guess that makes me a bass player for close to 50 years. For those of you not in the know; the uninformed and otherwise oblivious, I’ve...
by Christine | Jun 12, 2016 | Welcome Column
And what a get together it was. I’d tell you all about it but I still can’t open my eyes and my fingers are seriously missing keys on the keyboard.You’ll just have to wait. Thanks to everyone who made this year’s FDF one of the best...
by Christine | Jan 12, 2010 | Welcome Column
Where to begin? I guess the best place is always the music. Five to eight jams going none stop….never less than three, from one end of the Double Tree to the other. From mega circles to two or three picking quietly. Traditional bluegrass….. contemporary…....
by Christine | Jan 7, 2016 | Welcome Column
You might think by the title that I am going to add to the endless babble about the local NFL football team, WRONG! Maybe you think I’m going to write about the courageous and hopeful gold miners from California’s great history or maybe even the two RV parks in the...
by Christine | Jun 4, 2010 | Welcome Column
(“Brooks, if you get tired of walking, walk faster.”) Buzz Judd, circa 1958) 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...
by Christine | Jan 3, 2013 | Welcome Column
“Don’t quit your day job!” Contrary to that old saying among professional, semi-professional or (in my case) semi-amateur musicians, I am quitting my day job in 60 work days… or one fiscal quarter… or 13 weeks… I could break it down to minutes but I’ll spare you my...
