Peter North 

peter.north@ckua.com



For the past thirty years Peter North has been involved on the local regional roots music scene as journalist in print, radio and television and as a promoter of live music on a number of fronts.

As a print journalist North has been a columnist for 22 years with major dailies and for a decade he covered folk, blues, bluegrass, and country music for the Edmonton Journal. His pieces have also appeared in many national and regional magazines and he has written the liner notes for over three dozen albums including Herb Ellis & Duke Robillard's "More Conversations in Swing Guitar", Prairie Oyster's “Greatest Hits”, and the recent Grammy nominated world/blues disc “Slide To Freedom” from Doug Cox and Salil Bhatt.

His work in television has been extensive and included a six-year run co-producing the weekly and nationally broadcast roots music show Country Beat, on CBC.

His efforts have been recognized nationally, as he was named Music Journalist of the Year in 1996 at the annual Canadian Music Industry Awards and Media Person of the Year at the 2002 Prairie Music Awards. Most recently he was named as Media Person of the Year at the 2007 Western Canada Music Awards.

After years of booking artists in concert and club venues around Edmonton he continues to stay active on that front. He annually organizes the acoustic blues series Front Porch Roots Revue. Most recently Peter and Holger Petersen were executive producers on an album project titled “The Gift: A Tribute To Ian Tyson” that, thanks to outstanding performances of Tyson material from the likes of Chris Hillman, Corb Lund, Jennifer Warnes and The McDades, has been receiving critical acclaim across the continent.

Peter has hosted the popular program Dead Ends and Detours for a number of years. To that CKUA broadcast work he is contributing a new effort, a series of discussions with those in the music world. This new program is called, appropriately, Points North.