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A BAND with roots in a Christian school is making it big in the secular music
scene.
The Left, a band from Langley, has made the final three in the Peak Performance
Project competition organized by Vancouver radio station The Peak FM and Music
BC.
All four members, Eric Davis, Carl Davis, Jeremy vanDyck and Kevin Gau, attended
Pacific Academy in Surrey. Members of the band have been part of worship
groups: Gau at New Life Community Church in Burnaby; and Carl Davis at Youth
Church in Surrey.
In the past seven years, the band has performed at more than 300 shows across
Canada, and produced four albums. They are working on a new CD, which they plan
to tour across North America in 2010.
Peak Performance was created to encourage emerging artists. The 19 finalists,
chosen last May, were mentored by some of the industry’s top professionals at a week-long ‘boot camp.’ They were also in a series of concerts.
The Left topped the public voting portion of the contest. The bands were also evaluated on their live performances, songwriting
skills, musicianship, marketing savvy, vocals, crowd response and star power.
On December 14, The Left was announced as one of three finalists, along with
Bend Sinister from Vancouver and We Are The City from Kelowna. They will
compete in a final contest January 22 at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver.
First place prize will be $150,000; second place is $75,000, and third is
$50,000.
“Lots of people say they come up with music when they’re in the darkest place in [their] life,” Eric Davis told the Vancouver Sun.
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“We’re the opposite. We all feel loved and appreciated. None of us ran away from
home or anything.”
He told BCCN: “Our spirituality is the foundation that our artistic expression grows from.
Imagine artistic expression as ivy. Take a piece of it and make sure it is
planted in good soil with water. No one knows in what direction it will grow or
what it will look like, but it will be beautiful in unpredictable ways.
“We want to make sure we always have a strong foundation that we can grow freely
from and we will feel safe to do whatever comes naturally.” theleft.ca
– Jim Coggins
January 2010
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