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Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival Review

The Golden Gate Park was the venue for the third Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, which came to an end in spectacular fashion. Amidst a season filled with musical festivals and gatherings, the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival 2010 enjoyed a very successful and vibrant event, with attendance levels being higher than last year. The festival was able to offer a star studded line-up of artists and musicians, and music enthusiasts descended on the park in their thousands to attend this magnificent event.

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Western Canadian Music Awards 2010 Nominees

The Western Canadian Music Awards were developed out of the All Indie Weekend Festival, which eventually evolved into Prairie Music Week. In 2003, the Western Canadian Music Awards was hosted in its current form for the first time, and was hosted in various venues and cities each year following. Now the awards are seen as a prestigious accomplishment, and just recently, the nominees for the 2010 Western Canadian Music Awards were released. With so many worthy contenders on the lists, it is going to be a very interesting awards ceremony.

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VMA Nominations 2010

The very first Video Music Awards were hosted by MTV in 1984 to pay tribute to the artists and the creativity of the music videos made that year. Over the years it has grown to be a prestigious award and focuses on the music that younger fans, from their teens into their twenties, enjoy and support. It is known to draw millions of teenagers, and this year the recognizable astronaut on the moon will be handed over to the winners on 12 September 2010 at the Nokia Theater, which is located in Los Angeles.

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Benedictine Nuns Sign with Decca

The search to find the best Gregorian Chant singers in the world was a long and difficult task, as more than seventy convents entered the competition. With so many worthy competitors participating judging was extremely difficult, but the prize eventually went to the Benedictine Nuns who are located in southern France, in Avignon. Winning the competition means that the nuns have won a recording contract with Decca Records, putting them in the same league as celebrity recording artists such as U2, Eminem, Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga.

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The Legendary Hank Cochran

Hank Cochran, as he became known, was born Garland Perry Cochran during the Great Depression on 2 August 1935. Just a few weeks shy of his 75th birthday, Hank Cochran passed away on 15 July 2010, after losing his battle with pancreatic cancer. Now, looking back on the legacy of Cochran, it is clear that the music industry richly benefitted from his talents and songwriting abilities, with songs sung by icons still as popular today as they were when they first hit the charts.

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