Canadian Country Music Association

Country maven, Shania Twain, is ending here Las Vegas residency very soon. From the stage at the show I saw she noted that there were only ten dates left. In the next breath, she noted that she was ready to hit the road – so if you missed her show, Still the One at Ceasars Palace, you might be seeing here in you town in the future. The show was/is chock-a-block full of her hits. It sounds very much like a Shania review. This point was accented by a montage of clips and stills from her many videos that played out on the curtained backdrop of the stage, while Shania belted out a hit in the midst of gyrating dancers. The band was very well rehearsed to the point where I thought that they all might be simple actors and Shania was singing…

During my travels around Nashville, my group went to NSAI, the Nashville Songwriters Association International, located on Music Row. This non-profit organisation helps support up and coming talent whilst targeting congress in the US over rights and laws in the songwriting industry. We received a performance from the top talent, whom she performed her top songs and shared her tactics at succeeding in the music industry. The intensity of her presence and her determination was what struck my…

By 1988 Dolly was back to focusing on her musical career. She was nominated for two Grammys that year and won the Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group (Dolly Parton Awards). She shared this award with the great Linda Ronstadt and legendary Emmylou Harris. They received this award due to a hit off of their collaboration album, Trio. They later produced a second album Trio II. Dolly Parton also won a two People’s Choice Awards that year, Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer and…

they still had a happy life she even said herself that “while we didn’t have much money we had a good life”(Dawn 1). Parton was the fourth of 12 children and her mother had one miscarriage(Freeman 1). Her parents Robert and Avie Lee always new that there was something special about her and believed she could do anything she set her mind to (Dawn 1). Parton has always had the ability to inspire others and with her type of talent she was able to inspire woman who had less authority and others…

She shared her talent and love with the world and still managed to look fabulous while doing it! She has a sharp sense of humor and she can take a joke. She’s knows that people may not understand why she is the way she is, but she doesn’t care she goes on and continues doing what she loves to do. Dolly Parton is now 72 but she continues to perform and she’s opened her record company and has even released an album from it. She is a cultural icon, her beautiful voice has won the hearts of pop and…

On January 7, 2018, television personality Oprah Winfrey won the Cecil B. DeMille honorary Golden Globe for her contributions to the entertainment industry. Oprah became the first African American woman to win in the award’s sixty-six-year history. Past winners include Judy Garland, the first woman to be awarded, and Sidney Poitier, an inspiration to Oprah (Hollywood 1-10). While Oprah’s win made history that night, her acceptance speech will also go down in history. The entire night was filled…

Labrada 5 Anna Labrada Mrs. Noel English II 1 June 2017 Poetry Analysis: “All Too Well” Ten-time Grammy winner Taylor Alison Swift is one of the most accomplished artists in the world with four multiplatinum albums. Swift was born in Pennsylvania on December 13, 1989. At the young age of five, she began writing songs and at twelve, she learned to play the guitar in just a few hours. At thirteen, Swift began searching for a record label to sign her; she had trouble due to her young age, but…

not only were we sound engineers, we were favorable situational engineers. We were musicians at heart, with the ability to utilize our environment and our instruments to create, very favorable scenarios in which we could use nostalgia of recording- studio- stigmas- past, to control and concoct a flesh, friendly situation, of the consensual kind. My partner and I would effectively perch ourselves higher up and behind a most impressive sound board and swoon the ladies with our guitars, for…

“Almost Home” Some days, dreaming of the past is easier than living in the present. “Almost Home” is co-written and recorded by American country music singer Craig Morgan. This was the first top ten hit on the US country music charts for Morgan. He also received a Song of the Year award and earned a Songwriter’s Achievement Award from the Nashville Songwriters' Association International. “Almost Home” explores the struggles of homelessness, the complexities that life brings us, and the freedom…

Within the entertainment business of the United States, the music industry has become one of the most profitable and dynamic segments in the world. The many genres of music played within this country is as different as the individuals listening to it. Of the major types of music played across the radio, the two most dissimilar types of music are Country and Rap. Obviously, the instruments used and the influences of each genre greatly differ. For instance, like the southern/western twang of…