Peter Katz

Peter Katz is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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, and Garth Hudson from The Band, members of Levon Helm's band (on stage with Glen Hansard's band). 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’s most recent release was 2020’s City of Our Lives, featuring the singles “Paper Thin,” “Like We Used to Be,” and “Take Mine.”

His newest studio album, Everything Unfolding, will be released in 2025.

Peter’s acoustic version of Beyoncé’s Halo has amassed more than 30 million views.

Awards and nominations 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

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) 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.

Celebrate (May 16, 2025)

Keep Breathing (April 15, 2025)

Lean On (Major Lazer Cover) (April 28, 2023)

Bringing Down the Walls (February 10, 2023)

Calm Within the Storm (March 23, 2021)

Halo (Beyonce cover) (October 6, 2016)

Sunday Call (July 15, 2016)

Sorry (Justin Bieber Cover) (February 26, 2016)

Where The Light Used to Be (From the Movie 88) (February 26, 2016)

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