by Christine | May 30, 2011 | Welcome Column
They sneak up on me. The old brain does a pretty decent job remembering when it’s my turn to write a Welcome so I have a little time to mull over content and delivery, but when these months with fifth days roll around, all bets are off. Since I really haven’t spent...
by Christine | Aug 31, 2017 | Welcome Column
Megan B. Lynch – FiddleStar Camps and PublishingIf you didn’t know Sunshine McClenahan, I’m not entirely sure how to begin to describe her, and therefore to express what the world has just lost. I met her and her husband Lou when I was a little kid...
by Christine | Jan 30, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good Monday morning from Whiskey Creek, where the birds chirp much louder than any other place in the tri-county area, where there’s 1.7 dogs per single family dwelling in our little rural neighborhood, all barkers, where not one single big-rig lumber hauler has...
by Christine | Sep 28, 2020 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST…”Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”-Plato app – noun; an application; a typically small, specialized program...
by Christine | Apr 1, 2014 | Welcome Column
We kick off the spring season with an event in Cloverdale that Board Member Mark Hogan is involved with as part of his Sonoma County Area Activities position. This is year number 39 for the Cloverdale Fiddle Festival but the first to be held April 5th. We can kick off...
by Christine | Apr 4, 2016 | Welcome Column
I am late again getting my April President’s Message to editor Mark Varner and am going to insert instead a review I wrote about our first ever CBA Youth Program fundraising concert held February 26th in Alameda CA. We made a couple hundred dollars...
by Christine | Apr 2, 2018 | Welcome Column
February was a big month with many musical options for California bluegrassers. Volume Five appeared at the CBA produced Shingle Springs and a Night at the Grange concerts. Many CBAers make the trek to Lake Havasu in Arizona for the big festival Larry and...
by Christine | Apr 4, 2017 | Welcome Column
The Spring Campout is this month in Turlock! The CBA hosts three campouts each year: the Spring Campout, the Fall Campout (the Annual Membership Meeting) and the Old Time Cam- pout. If you have never attended a campout this might be the year to attend.Several years...
by Christine | Dec 5, 2012 | Welcome Column
In my parents’ generation, when they went out to watch music being played live, it was orchestras. Even the top bands on their day were orchestras. Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Phil Harris and the acts were bandleader front men backed by their orchestras. The...
by Christine | Feb 8, 2012 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass music sure has a lot of great songs (I’m including “songs” and “tunes”). Over the years, many have emerged as popular favorites, some to a degree that they have fallen out of favor. My personal favorite example is “Rocky Top”. From the time I first started...
