by Christine | Nov 27, 2011 | Welcome Column
I’m writing this on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving because I know things are going to start getting crazy here in a day or so. It’s Tuesday! You know what that means? It’s the night I listen to the CBA Bluegrass Show on KCSS. Marcos Alvira and his crew of weekly...
by Christine | Feb 13, 2009 | Welcome Column
John Green left the fifth string guitar store open like he does every Thursday night. And the faithful were gathered there like usual. And we were burying them beneath the willow, and singing about how a hundred years from now we’d still be crying, and we were old...
by Christine | May 22, 2011 | Welcome Column
I think we are all getting just a little bit weary of being “jerked around” by spring. Spring officially began on March 20, that’s over two months ago and here we are, still with our patio cushions in winter storage and wintery clothes still hanging near the front of...
by Christine | Sep 30, 2020 | Welcome Column
Some folks I know are hyper-detail oriented, and I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand, attention to detail generally makes things come out better, and is a trait of most highly successful people. On the downside, slavish attention to detail sometimes makes...
by Christine | Aug 3, 2017 | Welcome Column
August is looking up for me. I’ve got three gigs this month and two of them are pretty dang good. My sorta’ new bluegrass band Short Cross Ties is opening the GOF on the First Stage on Friday August 11 at noon and happy to be doing so. Getting there early and playing...
by Christine | Aug 7, 2017 | Welcome Column
Camps, Festival, Concerts Campouts, ParadesHow do we do it? Our relatively small (2800 member) organization has produced multiple events attended by thousands in the last month. We do it by the direction of our annually elected Board of Directors, the work of our...
by Christine | Aug 1, 2016 | Welcome Column
I am so grateful to the Board of Directors of the California Bluegrass Association and to Rick Cornish and Tim Edes for presenting me with an Honorary Lifetime Membership this year. I have spent an enormous amount of time, energy and love working with the...
by Christine | Aug 5, 2019 | Welcome Column
We have had couple of weeks to rest and reflect on an amazing 44th Annual CBA Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival. Every year’s festival is special and we need photos to remember each event. We had some last minute cancellations of photographers and Alan Bond and Patrick...
by Christine | Aug 9, 2011 | Welcome Column
Summer is in full swing and there are lots of opportunities for the younger generation to get together at festivals, music camps, campouts, concerts (venue and house). I notice that many of the young pickers I know expand musically during festival season when they...
by Christine | Dec 4, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: A few days ago, on one of our fifth-week-days-of-the-month, i.e., an unassigned Welcome day, we ran a piece by Brooks Judd about his Aunt Frances; it was subtitled “Part One.” Well we’ve had some requests for...
