Biography:

Peter is the principal songwriter for the folk/roots group "Same Latitude As Rome". Peter is an award winning songwriter, who has released 4 CDs with SLAR, and prior to that wrote numerous songs and jingles for radio and television. He wrote the music for a Dan Akroyd production of "Tom Paine" which was performed at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Peter is an experienced musician who has performed at Festivals, Concerts, bars, dances, across Canada and worked as a sideman for other musicians.

Peter wrote and co wrote a suite of songs about the War of 1812 that was recorded by Same Latitude As Rome and the group toured throughout Southern Ontario performing the songs as a show entitled "Stories and Songs of 1812" with historian Dan Loncke. Peter is currently busy recording his next project, still in the historical theme, covering important stories of Canadian history to be entitled "Early Days". One of the songs from that project was a winner in the political category in the Folk Music Ontario contest Songs from the Heart, called Song for Louis Riel. Two other songs from the CD were semi finalists in the 2013 UK Songwriting contest. Early Days will be released by Christmas 2014.