for a tour that includes a stop at Seattle’s iconic Bumbershoot Festival.Ī full-length album is scheduled for release this fall. One result was the booking of more big-time musical acts including bluesman Willie Dixon, zydeco master Clifton Chenier, jazzer Stan Getz, and guitar ace Ry Cooder. The video for “Drop the Guillotine”-in which singer-guitarist Neil Smith details a friend moving in on the one he loves-has meanwhile clocked an impressive half-million YouTube views.Īll that’s led to requests from bookers to play in places far beyond Vancouver promoters have reached out to group from both India and Indonesia.įirst, though, Peach Pit-which includes guitarist Christopher Vanderkooy, bassist Peter Wilton, and drummer Mikey Pascuzzi-will be headed to the U.S. Bumbershoot expanded to 10 days in 1974, the same year that Seattle Parks Department employee Jon Kertzer helped curate the music. Since then the world has slowly been discovering the band’s winning brand of Tropicália-tinted indie pop.Īfter being posted on YouTube this past February, the dreamy “Peach Pit” has piled up nearly 1.7 million listens (yes, you read that correctly), commenters praising the song as the perfect soundtrack for summer memories they wish they had. ACL, Lollapalooza and Bumbershoot, and alongside heroes like the Rolling. It affects about two to three people per 100,000 in. winning praise for finding beauty in the pain and disappointment that comes with almost all relationships, not to mention life in general. Having shared the stage with legends like Jim Cuddy, Gord Downie and Kathleen. Downie has been diagnosed with glioblastoma, which is the most common and most aggressive cancerous primary brain tumour. Peach Pit first caught our attention back in May of 2016, with the Vancouver quartet’s four-song debut Sweet F.A.
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