Project WILD is a professional development program designed to educate, promote, develop and launch the careers of some of Alberta’s up and coming country and roots artists. Top 12 artists will be awarded a $5,000 Development award and will all get to participate in an intense and career changing music and music industry bootcamp, where they will be pushed to the very limit of what they can achiev
e as artists. Project WILD, is part of a seven year, $4.9 million program, designed to kick-start the international music careers of 3 emerging Alberta artists annually. The project is administered by Alberta Music (Alberta Music Industry Association) and funded by WILD 953 - Calgary’s New Country, through CRTC approved Canadian Content Development Funding. For the previous two years in Alberta the program has been known as the PEAK Performance Project, which also ran as a program in BC for the past seven years. Previous Alberta and BC winners have been: The Wet Secrets, Leeroy Stagger, Good For Grapes, Bed Of Stars, We Are the City, Kyprios, Current Swell, Dear Rouge and Rykka.
