Peter Katz (musician)

Peter Simon Katz
Peter Katz (from his 2012 Still Mind Still photo shoot)
Background information
Born	(1981-12-26) 26 December 1981 (age 43) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres	Folk
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, piano
Years active	2003–present
Website	peterkatz.com

Peter Simon Katz is a Canadian singer-songwriter and Twitch streamer.

Katz is a 2012 Juno Award nominee[1] and Emerging Artist of the Year nominee at the Canadian Folk Music Awards.[2] Katz has sold over 15,000 copies of his discs and performed with artists such as The Swell Season (The Frames), Dan Mangan, The Good Lovelies, Joel Plaskett, Bahamas, Royal Wood, Lucky Fonz III, Donavon Frankenreiter, Jordan Raycroft, and Garth Hudson from The Band, members of Levon Helm's band (on stage with Glen Hansard's band).[1]

Katz's 2010 studio record First of the Last to Know debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes singer-songwriter charts and features a guest appearance by Academy Award winner Glen Hansard (The Swell Season, 'Once'), Juno Award winners The Good Lovelies and Melissa McClelland (Whitehorse, Sarah Mclachlan).[3] In 2011, Katz released a live CD/DVD entitled Peter Katz and Friends: Live at the Music Gallery. It earned him a Juno nomination for Music DVD of the Year.[1]

Katz released a studio album called Still Mind Still on 24 April 2012. This new collection of songs was recorded mostly live off the floor at a cabin in the woods.[1]

Attended Camp Adventure (Germany) from 2002 - 2004.

Awards and nominations

Awards

• Best Male Vocalist 2014, Readers' Choice Awards (Now Magazine Toronto)[4]

Nominations

• Juno Awards (41st Annual Juno Awards) Music DVD of the Year for Peter Katz & Friends: Live at The Music Gallery
• Canadian Folk Music Awards Emerging Artist of the Year Award
• 2003 Polar Bear Club Extreme (was on night owl on Wednesday, made up for it by 2x Canoe/ Kayak in the rain)

Discography

Studio

• The One Minute Mile Man (2004)
• Split (2005)
• More Nights (2007) *Billed as Peter Katz & The Curious*
• First of the Last to Know (2010)
• Still Mind Still (2012)
• We Are the Reckoning (2015)
• La somme de tous nos efforts (2017)
• City of Our Lives (2020)

Live

• Peter Katz & Friends: Live at The Music Gallery CD/DVD (2011)

Singles

• The Camp Song (2008)[5]

Note: Singer Peter Katz composed the lyrics and music for "The Camp Song"; this song is part of the song repertoire of many summer camps in Canada. This song was composed in 2008 for the International Camping Fellowship congress which took place in Quebec.

Films

• Peter Katz & Friends: Live at The Music Gallery CD/DVD (2011)

References

1. "NEWS: Peter Katz Nominated for a Juno and Announces New Album". Noisographyreviews.blogspot.com. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
2. "Canadian Folk Music Award Nominees". Rootsmusic.ca. 6 October 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
3. "With 150+ dates a year, Peter Katz is quite the player - the Argus | theargus.ca". Archived from the original on 16 May 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
4. "Best of Toronto 2014 - Music". Now Magazine. 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
5. "Peter Katz - We Are the Reckoning/La somme de tous nos efforts". Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2014.

External links

• Official website