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The world-renowned high-wire artist is the centrepiece for this year’s Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show entitled Grand Spectacular. He is performing his Fire Wire show for the first time to the public, in which he walks across a flaming wire high above the stage — a white-knuckle act that has garnered rave reviews. / Calgary Herald
Stampede Grandstand Show aims for 'jaw-dropping entertainment'
Louis B. Hobson / Calgary Herald
Pierce’s jaw-dropper this year is world renowned wire walker Jade Kindar- Martin who was the stunt double for Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the 2015 movie The Walk.
“He will perform all the stunts he did on the wire for the movie but then, for his grand finale, he will light the wire on fire and then walk it.
“If that doesn’t get our audiences gasping and cheering, nothing will.
“I’ve got car insurance, I’ve got house insurance. But no life insurance — I’ve been refused so many times, I’ve lost count.” Valerie Fortney, Calgary Herald
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