Biography
Twin Peaks formed in Fort St. John, in the northeastern corner of British Columbia — a region better known for oil, gas and long winters than for folk music, but home to a small and stubborn roots scene that has quietly outlasted a few boom cycles. The name comes from the twin ridgelines that shadow the Peace River valley, a piece of geography that shows up again and again in the pacing of the songs.
"Minor-key, dance-driven melodies, filtered through plainspoken Western Canadian storytelling."
The sound sits at a crossroads: melodies borrowed from Eastern European folk traditions, filtered through the plainspoken storytelling of Western Canadian roots music. Accordion carries the melody more often than guitar, upright bass anchors the low end, and fiddle does the work a lead guitar would do in most other bands.
The band built its early audience the way most Canadian roots acts do — one small room at a time, on bills alongside other BC-rooted folk and roots artists whose paths have crossed repeatedly over the years. That grassroots run eventually carried the project onto larger regional and national showcase stages, without changing the small-room instincts the songs were written with.
Original illustration — accordion, the band's lead voice.
