Award winner Pip just released his 30th album, Every City, with guests from the HPO, Simply Saucer, Myriad Three, Gurpreet Chana, Karen Thornton, and many others.
A long-time Hamiltonian, Pip has organized music festivals and volunteered technical help at festivals such as It's Your Festival, the Matapa Hamilton World Music Festival, Supercrawl, Something Else, and many others. He produced the stage and slate of bands at the Try Hamilton Street Festival on Concession Street in Hamilton, presenting Sharon Musgrave, Junestone, and more.
Pip has also collaborated with many musicians working out of Hamilton's jazz community, including Brad Cheeseman, Jadon Haughton, Karen Thornton, David Lee and Dan Fortin. Pip's music is not jazz, but jazz players lend their talents to it to great success: distinctive creative and melodic vocal songs with pop, world, classical, and jazz elements - "You wish you had discovered them sooner".
Some of Pip's songs conjure up South American dance ryhthms; some make you feel the moment's beauty:
ROOFTOP CONCERT - Pip's trio live on rooftop of Dr. Disc !!!
Pip has performed across South East Asia, Europe, the United States, and Korea. Pip and his musicians have played many festivals over the years, including these Hamilton festivals: Festival of Friends 2025 mainstage with full band; It's Your Festival; The Mustard Jazz Festival; Barton Village Festival; "Songs for the Bishop" Festival of Songwriters (Bishop's Park, Hamilton); Art Gallery of Hamilton; and every venue in town.
Pip has also helped build art communities by booking festivals, running a theatre, running an art gallery, acting as venue booker, collaborating with orchestral musicians, and hiring himself out as FOH sound person.
Pip has worked with many demographically and geographically diverse musicians producers and presenters over the decades.
Pip won the Songwriter of the Year at the 9th Annual Central Ontario Wire Awards.
Pip’s music has been compared to the songs of Shirley Horn, Donovan, Burt Bacharach, Michael Franks, Jimmy Webb, Randy Newman, Irene Kral, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc... But of course at this point he has his own unique voice.
Pip writes about experiences living abroad in eight different countries and cultures of "other". Some of his lyrics are in languages that are not English. Lyrics address freedom of speech, tolerance, equal rights, and equal opportunity, as well as the usual topics of love, life, emotions and compassion. Pip's music is a blend of music of more than one culture and genre: that is his background.
Although he does not play arena rock, Pip grew up playing hockey and is a fan of the Dundas Real McCoys hockey team. He was also a member of the all-musicians Morningstars Hockey Club.
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