Category: Music

Interview with British Singer-Songwriter Birdy at Outside Lands

16-year-old British singer-songwriter Birdy (Jasmine Van den Bogaerde) has been on musical roll ever since releasing her cover of Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” last year. The pop song exploded on both the radio and YouTube, and earlier this year she released her self-titled debut album on Warner Bros. Records. Birdy was able to answer some questions about the new album ahead of her Sunday afternoon performance (her first at such a festival) at this year’s Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco. … Continue reading…Interview with British Singer-Songwriter Birdy at Outside Lands

Interview: Mark McLarry, President Of Alternative Power Productions

Alternative Power Productions (APP) provides solar-powered staging and sound equipment for large events, and will again be part of this year’s Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on August 10-12, 2012. Company President Mark McLarry answers some questions about APP and how its technology reduces the environmental impacts of large events and music festival through the use of alternative energy. … Continue reading…Interview: Mark McLarry, President Of Alternative Power Productions

Outside Lands Festival 2011: Sunday Recap

Mother Nature seemed to be enjoying the fourth annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park because it gave festivalgoers a second straight day of sun and warm weather on Sunday (August 14, 2011). And maybe Mother Nature was rewarding the City by the Bay after San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee proclaimed a day earlier that this weekend (approximately the second weekend in August) would be “Outside Lands weekend forever!” … Continue reading…Outside Lands Festival 2011: Sunday Recap