An Okanagan-based singer-songwriter is about to take off like the wind as he hits the road on his western Canada tour.
Jeff Pike, who makes acoustic groove music under the name Windborn, starts his tour in Enderby Friday with a performance at the Cliffs Café.
He also plays Vernon’s Talkin’ Donkey coffee house on Monday.
“I’ve actually packed up everything I own into storage over Christmas here and am starting to tour full time,” said Pike in an e-mail to The Morning Star.
Pike has been writing, recording and performing since 1998. He started out playing in Alberta’s hard rock scene, and eventually veered into a solo career under the name Windborn upon moving to Kelowna.
Since 2007, he has played his alternative acoustic music at more than 500 concerts at coffee shops, cafés, pubs, music venues and festivals all over western Canada, opening for the likes of Matthew Barber, Jon and Roy and The Set.
He has played the Pop Okanagan and Fusion Festivals, Canada Day and Parks Alive shows in his hometown of Kelowna, as well as Shake the Lake in Sylvan Lake, Alta., and Serenity Performing Arts in Clearwater, B.C.
Pike has released two recordings, 2010’s EP Radiate and a full-length album called Spitting Bullets in 2011, both of which received radio play on independent stations across Canada and the U.S.
Admission to Windborn’s show in Enderby, which starts at 7 p.m., as well as in Vernon, which starts at 8 p.m., are both by donation.
