November 23, 2015
Bed of Stars, 2015 PEAK Performance Project award-winners for British Columbia.
Radio stations 102.7 and 95.3 The PEAK, in British Columbia and Alberta respectively, have announced their winners for the seventh PEAK Performance Project awards. Both Leeroy Stagger (Alberta) and Bed of Stars (BC) took home over $100,000 as grand prize winners. There were also prizes for the runners up: The Royal Foundry and TRANSIT won second ($75K) and third (50K) place in Alberta, and JP Maurice and Van Damsel took home the same in BC.
Canada Music Week kicks off today
The PEAK Performance Project awards has put around 5 million dollars into BC and Alberta’s music community, and past winners of each award have included We Are The City, Dear Rouge, and The Wet Secrets. The top 12 bands from the competition, on top of each receiving a $5000 prize, were also teamed up to produce 12 original tracks based on the theme “hello, goodbye,” which were made available for download.
This is the final year of the PEAK Performance Project’s seven year lifespan, launched originally to assist artists with education, marketing, and funding. Over those seven years, about 1.6 million dollars has been split between the top three finalists.
In Other News:
- Celebrated Newfoundland songwriter Ron Hynes died.
- M for Montreal broke a bunch of new bands last week.
- Hearing begins for the 2012 Radiohead stage collapse in Toronto.
- There were lots of Canadian wins at the American Music Awards.
- Lowest of the Low is back.