Peter Katz (musician)

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

Katz is a 2012 Juno Award nominee and Emerging Artist of the Year nominee at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. 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).

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). 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.

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.

Attended Camp Adventure (Germany) from 2002 - 2004.

Awards

 * Best Male Vocalist 2014, Readers' Choice Awards (Now Magazine Toronto)

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)

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
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.
 * The Camp Song (2008)

Films

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