Peter Jack

Resident in Berlin, Germany.
Piano lessons from age 9, changing to guitar at 12.
1977-80 guitar teacher at a private music school .. main emphasis song-accompaniment, finger-picking/ragtime solo guitar.
After the obligatory school bands came the first solo concerts as a singer-songwriter.
Move to Berlin in 1981. Along with at least 200 other singer-songwriters worked the Berlin folk scene in clubs like GO IN, FOLKPUB, STEVECLUB and BANANA. In 1982 prize-winner at the New Talent Festival of the German Record Academy (with Ian Melrose as additional guitarist).
Joined Ian Melrose's folk formation TWILIGHT as bass player (prize-winner HÖRFEST Hamburg 1984; 1st prize in folk group competition at the Edinburgh Folk festival 1985 and record deal with Scottish label LISMOR)
1984 - 1987 studied pop and contemporary music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg.
1989 - 1999 bass player and songwriter in the "chamber-pop." band BE MINE OR RUN. Countless concerts in Germany and Europe, TV- and radio appearances, 5 CDs (German Critics Prize for "Beautiful People" 1997).
1989 - 1996 bass player with Celtic formation NORLAND WIND (including Thomas Loefke, Kerstin Blodig, Noel & Pádraig Duggan of CLANNAD).
CD "Norland Wind" on Celtic Heartbeat/Universal (1994). 1997 founded Hippie-Yippie-Folk Band ALMOST HEAVEN. Here as guitarist and vocalist.
Over the years bass player (speciality: fretless in acoustic formations) in many further projects and record productions. Theatre-, blues, jazz, folk, rock/pop and world music.
Also teaches Bass, Acoustic Guitar and Fivestring-Banjo at Tonart die Musikschule in Berlin.
Currently bass player in the the Irish- Scottish-American Virtuoso Band Spirit Level, guitarist and Five-String-Picker with Indijana & the Jones (hillbilly-pop) and bassplayer and singer in the Hippie-Pop-Duo Chelsea Radio with Franziksa Günther (voc & guitar).