by Christine | Jun 7, 2010 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Bruce’s column, “Grass Valley Field Guide, Second Edition”, generated enough interest among readers last week that we thought we should re-run the original piece posted last year at this time. And of course we want to remind you all that you too can...
by Christine | Jun 3, 2009 | Welcome Column
Less than two weeks until Grass Valley folks! This is good time to point out that the joys offered by this yearly event go way beyond just hanging out with friends, jamming and watching some top notch Bluegrass acts. I am speaking, of course, on the natural fauna that...
by Christine | Oct 27, 2010 | Welcome Column
Gather ‘round children! So you want to hear a Halloween story? OK, here’s one I know you’ll like: The Phantom of the Campout. You younger kids might want to skip this one… The jammers huddled determinedly around the dim lantern. It was an unexpectedly cold night, but...
by Christine | Apr 23, 2019 | Welcome Column
Hand Open your hands and count the lines – blue and gray but not confederated signs of wrinkled times when under baking suns they held a tool of labor. Slicing crosswise, blue and glistening another deeper mark, but is it work – Nobody tells of when we fall and cry...
by Christine | Jun 23, 2009 | Welcome Column
It seems like every year at Grass Valley some theme or concept develops for me throughout the week and then serves to encapsulate that particular Fathers Day Festival. The concept reverberating in my weary, half-awake brain as I pulled out of Gate Four last morning...
by Christine | May 9, 2010 | Welcome Column
We’re very late getting today’s Welcome message up. I just arrived home from the Parkfeild Festival; thought I had today’s column covered but apparently not. I’d really like to tell you all about four wonderful days of bluegrass on the central...
by Christine | Apr 5, 2019 | Welcome Column
Beginning thought: A famous poet once said that ,“April is the cruelest month of the year.” What could possibly make April so cruel? April 15.. Need I say more?But there is this. April 8-14 turns April into the most joyful month with the CBA’s Annual...
by Christine | Jan 16, 2011 | Welcome Column
I’m sitting here in the comfort of my home, dog sleeping at my side (like many dogs he wants to spoon against my side or legs…it amazes me how a 30 lb dog can push me or my wife off the bed), some clocks ticking, the occasional whirr of the refrigerator, a few passing...
by Christine | Oct 21, 2009 | Welcome Column
Most of us, at one time or another, have pondered what we would do if we were told we had a specific short time to live. Usually, the proffered answers involve traveling, living it up, smelling the roses – stuff like that. It’s a fun intellectual exercise. Unless, of...
by Christine | Dec 29, 2012 | Welcome Column
I have often wondered what my life would have been like had I not heard Bill Monroe on the radio that early morning back about 1943 or 44. I’m sure my bluegrass family has heard me tell this story before about the first time I heard Bill Monroe on the radio. It...
