by Christine | Dec 15, 2019 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass Country has kicked off its year-end fundraising campaign, featuring special editions of the regular shows through Dec. 13th.On Bluegrass Signal — broadcast Mondays (8 pm), Tuesdays (9 pm), and Fridays (3 pm), all times Pacific — I’ll present a history of...
by Christine | Aug 22, 2011 | Welcome Column
It seems there are more couples performing bluegrass all the time. Kenny and Amanda Smith and Darin and Brooke Aldridge are two of the most successful contemporary examples of this phenomena. Closer to home, you can find plenty of couples playing at CBA festivals and...
by Christine | May 7, 2009 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from Nancy Zuniga Thursday, May 7, 2009 We’re getting ready to leave for the Parkfield Bluegrass Festival later on today, packing all the necessary items….including dog food and bowls, pet bed, chew toys, and a few extra doggy...
by Christine | Jun 21, 2014 | Welcome Column
It was the week before the California Bluegrass Association Father’s Day Festival in June, and I experienced a cosmic nudge. It was a nudge telling me that things just might not go as smoothly as I had planned. I had been bucking some logs at the old home place, and...
by Christine | Aug 15, 2019 | Welcome Column
The Internet has become a wonderful source of bluegrass and old-time music history. I have spent many fascinating hours on YouTube watching and listening to musical performances captured on film and audio recordings over the best part of a century. One of the things...
by Christine | Oct 24, 2011 | Welcome Column
The bluegrass/baseball connection goes back to Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys fielding a team as a pre-show promotion. Baseball is referenced in bluegrass songs like Jimmy Martin’s “Home Run Man” and the Gibson Brothers’ “Iron and Diamonds.” Our own CBA message board...
by Christine | Nov 21, 2016 | Welcome Column
I have a special ghost writer for my column today, my friend John Baldry from jolly old England. Geoff Sergeant said yesterday that he grew up in the American South (as I did too) yet learned how to play bluegrass in California. Well I can testify that I learned how...
by Christine | Mar 20, 2014 | Welcome Column
I recently had the privilege of presenting my documentary “Making History with Pioneers of Bluegrass” at the Bluegrass on Broadway Film Festival in Redwood City, CA. I met a lot of wonderful people at this event but filmmaker Rick Bowman and his film “Herschel...
by Christine | Jan 17, 2018 | Welcome Column
Well, another Great 48 is in the books, and from all accounts, a good time was had by all. We sure showed the Bakersfield Marriott how many bluegrassers it takes to cause a power outage right? Just kidding – it wasn’t our fault!Strolling around the...
by Christine | Sep 30, 2009 | Welcome Column
Greetings and salutations from Music City, also known as Nashville! As a Bluegrass fan, it is gratifying to be in an area where you don’t have to explain to the Average Man on the Street what Bluegrass is. In fact, in Nashville the Average Man on the Street is likely...
