After 5 years, 100 Artists, and over $3.7 million spent to date in artist development funding in British Columbia, 102.7 The PEAK’s award-winning program The PEAK Performance Project is Crossing the Rockies and planting a second set of roots in Alberta. Thanks to the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, the Alberta PEAK Performance Project will inject $4.9 million into the Alberta music industry in addition to the $5.2 million commitment already made to British Columbia. With the launch of Alberta’s PEAK Performance Program, the total of grand prize awards between the two provinces is doubling to close to $500,000 per year. 

The programs in both provinces run parallel but as separate contests. 12 artists are chosen from BC, and 12 from Alberta. All artists start with $5000 in development funding. Then together they descend on RockRidge Canyon in Princeton, BC for an intense seven-day boot camp. From there, each artist performs a critiqued showcase (in their home province) and carries out a number of career enhancing challenges and online voting that accumulate points for the adjudication committee. Each program chooses their top 3 artists, who perform at a Finale concert in Vancouver or Calgary, where they find out how they placed and who takes home the grand prize!

One of the key starting points for any recording artist is writing a great song. Songwriting is a skill that is constantly being developed. This year, we teamed up the artists from BC and Alberta with the challenge of writing a song to record at boot camp! Using the theme "Come Together", the artists worked with our amazing producers Jeff Dawson, Garth Richardson, Russell Broom, Shawn Cole, Warne Livesey, and Winston Hauschild to come up with 12 original songs. All 12 songs were recorded in 4 pop-up studios built in a day at RockRidge Canyon. This could not be possible without the help of Nimbus School of Recording Arts (nimbusrecording.com) and their amazing crew.

Studio Assistants - Nick Smalley, Jaeden Froese, Kirk Holland, Brendan Guy, Zachary Brehl, Charles Hughes, Matt Gibb
Assistant Studio Manager - Alison Costello
Recording Engineers and Studio Technicians - Nygel Asselin (nygproductions.com) and Paul Boechler (paulboechler.com)

Big thanks to Mike "Mr. Wolf" Schroeder for keeping us on schedule.

CD manufacturing sponsored by Pressing Media (pressing-media.com)
All Songs Mastered by Brock McFarlane at CPS Mastering (cpsmastering.com)
Artwork and layout by Brandon William Fletcher (brandonwfletcher.com)
Photography by Christopher James Guy (christopherjamesguy.com) and Sebastian Buzzalino (unfoldingcreativephoto.com)

1. Look Left, Look Right (Make Out With Everyone) - Altered By Mom & Mitchmatic
℗ 2014 Altered By Mom, Mitchmatic
© 2014 Mitch Holtby, Devon Lougheed, Jeff Dawson, Catherine Hiltz, Aaron Klassen, Mike Young
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Jeff Dawson
Assistant Engineer: Brendan Guy

2. Kill The Lights - Shred Kelly & The Wet Secrets
℗ 2014 Shred Kelly, The Wet Secrets
© 2014 Lyle Bell, Trevor Anderson, Paul Arnusch, Emma Frazier, Ryan Hauschild, Christian Maslyk, Sage McBride, Tim Newton, Ian Page-Shiner, Kim Rackel, Jordan Vlasschaert, Ty West
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Winston Hauschild
Assistant Engineer: Charles Hughes

3. I See Red - Jodi Pederson & 36?
℗ 2014 Jodi Pederson, 36?
© 2014 Taylor Cochrane, Jodi Pederson, Warne Livesey
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Warne Livesey
Assistant Engineer: Zachary Brehl

4. Every Good Thing - Jon Bryant & Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk
℗ 2014 Jon Bryant, Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk
© 2014 Jon Bryant, Lauren Szoges
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Russell Broom
Assistant Engineer: Kirk Holland

5. Olive Branch - David Newberry & Boreal Sons
℗ 2014 David Newberry, Boreal Sons
© 2014 Evan Acheson, David Newberry, Matt Campbell, Ryan Hauschild, Jean Paul Maurice, Reagan McLean, Peter Mynett, Zach N. Pick, Zach Schultz
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Winston Hauschild
Assistant Engineer: Charles Hughes

6. Summer Thing - Derrival & Sidney York
℗ 2014 Derrival, Sidney York
© 2014 Brandi Sidoryk, Krista Wodelet, Deven Azevedo, Glen Jackson, Daniel Kozlowski, Adam Mah, Shane Stephenson, Russell Broom
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Russell Broom
Assistant Engineer: Kirk Holland

7. Liberator (Come Together) - Goodwood Atoms & Nuela Charles
℗ 2014 Goodwood Atoms, Nuela Charles
© 2014 Francis Hooper, Manuela Wuthrich, Jeff Dawson, Joseph Pooley
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Jeff Dawson
Assistant Engineer: Brendan Guy

8. Get Off - Miss Quincy and the Showdown & Port Juvee
℗ 2014 Miss Quincy and the Showdown, Port Juvee
© 2014 Jen Foster, Jordan Peck, Jessie Robertson, Andrew Hamil, Logan Juke, Joel Learoyd, Brett Sandford, Lauchlin Toms
Produced by: Garth Richardson
Engineered and Mixed By: Nygel Asselin
Assistant Engineer: Nick Smalley

9. Stop All Your Running - The Tourist Company & Samantha Savage Smith
℗ 2014 The Tourist Company, Samantha Savage Smith
© 2014 Samantha A. Smith, Taylor C. Swindells, Shawn Cole
Produced by: Shawn Cole
Engineered by: Paul Boechler
Mixed By: Shawn Cole and Paul Boechler
Assistant Engineer: Matt Gibb

10. Reach Across the Rockies - The Wild Romantics & SAVK
℗ 2014 The Wild Romantics, SAVK
© 2014 Stephen A van Kampen, Aleisha Kalina, Evan Miller, Warne Livesy
Produced by: Shawn Cole
Engineered by: Paul Boechler
Mixed By: Shawn Cole and Paul Boechler
Assistant Engineer: Matt Gibb

11. Treading Water - Good For Grapes & The Royal Foundry
℗ 2014 Good For Grapes, The Royal Foundry
© 2014 Daniel McBurnie, Graham Gomez, Robert Hardie, Alexa Unwin, Will Watson, Alex Hauka, Bethany Salte, Jared Salte
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Warne Livesey
Assistant Engineer: Zachary Brehl

12. Strong Like A River - Damn Fools & Scenic Route To Alaska
℗ 2014 Damn Fools, Scenic Route To Alaska
© 2014 Christopher Ball, Shea Connor, Alex Gordon-Firing, Trevor Mann, Mike Turner, Andrew Twining, Mike Twining, Jovan Vujatovic, Murray Wood
Produced by: Garth Richardson
Engineered and Mixed By: Nygel Asselin
Assistant Engineer: Nick Smalley

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