Bryan Potvin's Website 2005

Biography

Ottawa born Bryan Anthony Potvin has been involved in the music business since the age of sixteen when he was a runner for Nite Out Concert Productions based out of Winnipeg. At the age of twenty he, Jay Semko, Merl Bryck and Don Schmid formed The Northern Pikes who's six album catalogue with Virgin Records has sold in excess of 600,000 units internationally, including 3 gold albums and the multi-platinum selling SNOW IN JUNE.

In the past ten years, Bryan has also worked as A&R manager for Mercury Records Canada and songwriter/producer with BMG Music Publishing Canada along with producing albums for various artists. Current writing & production work includes Andrea England (1st runner up in 2003 John Lennon Songwriting Contest), Hayley Aitken (Jive/Zomba Australia), Velvet Empire and Christa Borden (Popstars, Universal Canada), Doc Walker (“Get Up”, top 5 at Canadian country radio), Blackie & The Rodeo Kings (“Enough Of You Today”, top 20 at Canadian rock radio) and Beverley Mahood as well as several other projects in development. On December 2 2003 the Northern Pikes released a new set of material on the Sextant EMI label. The album is entitled IT'S A GOOD LIFE.