Pete Otis has been involved in the Toronto and Canadian music scene since he began hanging around Yorkville in the mid-60s, but it’s really been just the last three years that his passion for promoting fellow artists and his own songwriting and performing skills have fully blossomed.
After recording two cds with his original Pape Gang Band a few decades ago he took a “day job” as a liaison officer with Canada’s performers’ rights organization, SOCAN. After retiring from that position in 2007,...