Talk about Awesome, have you heard of administered by ? A few months ago they put a call for entries out to bands who have to send in their demos, etc, then they chose the top 20 of those which they'll send to a boot camp/workshop thing. After that there'll be a concert series that the bands play and in the end the best 3 artists/groups will share $275,000 (!!!) for sustained career development. They're basically taking the best bands and giving them an amazing helping hand. And the program runs for the next 7 years, doling out 5.29 MILLION DOLLARS to 21 different artists. This is one more reason why the Peak is my favourite local station.
And I was pretty stoked to see that friends of V.I.A., , were chosen out of the 450 bands that applied to participate in the inaugural year of the program. Yeah, Bend Sinister!
Bend Sinister. Photo by Justin Tyler Close of the STUDIO
to the announcement page. And in case you're wondering the top 20 are:
TÉA from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-
The Painted Birds from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-
Jackson Cook from Kelowna -
Danny Echo from Burnaby -
Familia from Maple Ridge -
Freeflow from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-
Garrett Kato from Port Coquitlam -
Bodhi Jones from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-
adaline from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-
Adrian Glynn from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-
Alexandria Maillot from Nanaimo -
Ben Sigston from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-
Bend Sinister from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-
Kuba Oms from Victoria -
Run The Red Light from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-
We Are The City from Kelowna -
TV HeartAttack from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-
Wassabi Collective from Nelson -
Sweetheart from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-
The Left from Langley -