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One platinum and four gold albums. The highest rated show in the history of Canada’s Outdoor Life Network and the US Discovery Science Channel. Powerful concert performance with national and international tours. Devoted fans worldwide anxiously awaiting the next episode.

Confused yet? Are we talking about a rock band or a TV star?

What we are talking about is the fusion of both.

The Northern Pikes have been responsible for such top Canadian hits as Girl With a Problem, Teenland, Things We Do For Money and the iconic She Ain’t Pretty. Les Stroud made television history when he created Survivorman.

Early in the days of Survivorman’s presence on television screens across Canada, The United States, United Kingdom, Africa, Europe, France, Spain, Italy and onwards, Jay Semko convinced his band mate Bryan Potvin to check out the show. Bryan was impressed enough to look up Les Stroud on the web. There he discovered that more lurked beneath the surface of this TV cult hero. He was a songwriter and performing musician.

Les Stroud sat alone in his edit suite answering some viewer emails when Bryan’s came through. The modesty of Bryan’s comments “I’ve got a band and we play some gigs” caught Stroud by surprise. “Are you kidding me? of course I know who the Northern Pikes are!” And with that the blending of two creative entities began; The Northern Pikes and Survivorman.

From the first haunting notes of We Crawl to Stroud’s well known prowess on the blues harmonica during Nice Tattoo, audiences were treated the summer of 2006 to a sneak preview to what was about to become Les Stroud and The Pikes.

Les Stroud’s debut CD is a collection of diverse roots/blues and traditional folk acoustic music. Produced with the talented recording engineer Ian Auger, the music will take you through the traditional finger pickin’ style blues with Delta Snow, capture your spirit with the incredible soulful fiddle playing of Don Reed (Dwight Yoakam) on Great Blue Sky, put a smile on your face and get your feet tapping with Blue Soul and Don’t Touch It and carry you away with emotion on the wonderful violin, bass and cell arrangement and hauntingly, inspiring lyrics of Clouds.

Les’ CD also features the alluring vocals of artist Kelly she can be found at the Idenpendant Artists Company Site here. With songs speaking of the uniquely northern spirit of freedom and adventure this CD is a must for any lover of the northern wilderness, and adventure.

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