Peter G-G

Comically musical and athletic, interactive stilt characters? You bet! Elegant and whimsical stilt and ground characters? Of course!! Highly trained, improvisational and musical actors creating a character just for your event? Absolutely!!!

Or if you prefer a wildly popular all-ages stage show...

Ruffle Redbird is back with his interactive musical improv show, Let’s Make a Song!

Redbird - playing his groovy guitalele - gets the crowd rolling with awesome and silly examples of how hit songs are made, from 70's rockers to the Top 40 of today. Then, he takes ideas and suggestions from the crowd and, line by line, writing them on a big whiteboard, together they create a cool new tune. Finally, Redbird invites daring members of the audience to join him on stage to sing and perform it: instruments are handed out on stage and passed through the audience, and it's time to ROCK!

The interactive format allows for everyone's ideas, and quickly results in a wild and wonderful finale where all the participants and audience have created a new hit song!

Ruffle Redbird is professional actor/singer/musician/circus artist Peter G-G. Peter has played at major festivals and events across Canada and beyond for thirty plus years, and is a proud member of CAEA, SOCAN, ACTRA, UBCP and Clowns Canada.

*I am performing concerts and birthday parties by distance now - on stilts for birthday parties/bday parades w/ music, from the street w/ a battery powered amp for extended care homes and parties, and online w/ my excellent home studio set up.* Peter G-G is a circus artist, musician, host and professional actor. He performs across Canada with pro theatre and circus companies, as well as in lead roles for stage, film and TV. Peter has played at major festivals and events across Canada and beyond for thirty plus years, and is a member of CAEA, SOCAN, ACTRA, UBCP and Clowns Canada. His original songs have been featured in two Hallmark films, and three movies.

"I was blown away…he is an amazing performer with what it takes to add real value to a festival."
Karen Cecy, Port Credit Busker Fest - Producer

Peter’s comically acrobatic and musical ground and stilt character performances include: Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza; Global Buskers United Online Festiva 2020; 2015 Pan Am Games; Grey Cup 100 Toronto; Olympics 2014, 2010 & 2006; NFL, MLS and NHL games, including co-host of NHL All-Star Week in BC; Sarah McLachlan’s Voices In The Park; Toronto Int’l Circus Festival; Vancouver’s SummerLive, Celebrate Stanley Park 125, Van Dusen 40th and QE Park’s 75th Anniversary Festivals; Winnipeg and (annually) Vancouver Folk Fests; Vancouver, Surrey, Coquitlam, Burnaby & Mississauga Canada Day; annual Whistler events including: Children’s Festival, Street Ent & Family Apres weekends, Gran Fondo, North Face ½ Marathon and Cdn. Nat’l BBQ Champs; Walk for Miracles; Pan Am Games 2015; a cross-Canada series of events for President’s Choice; along with countless festivals, corporate and family events, hospice and hospital visits, films, TV shows, commercials and more. Peter also performed 4 seasons of soccer on stilts for the Vancouver Whitecaps at BC Place - MLS games and special events - and has taught stilting, juggling and physical theatre skills in ON & BC.

Trained as an actor at the George Brown College Theatre School in Toronto (and in Phys Ed at Queen’s U before that, where he won the Rookie of the Year award for athletics in his first year), he has performed in professional plays and musicals across the country since 1987, in everything from Miss Saigon (as The Engineer) to Johnny in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. These days he also joyfully performs at many festivals and special events as a stilt walker and physical character, most notably as the silly-song-singing, guitalele-playing Ruffle Redbird. Also a musician and singer/songwriter, Peter plays a number of solo corporate and bar gigs and fundraisers each year, sings and plays guitar in the cover band The Lollygaggers, and has recorded two original CDs. As a writer he has written two plays - including an eco play for youth with the help of Dr. David Suzuki – a feature screenplay, a doc script on the SE Asian tsunami (for which he traveled to Thailand) and a small book on generosity. And his considerable list of lead and supporting roles in film and TV continues to grow.

Peter has also worked as a caregiver with physically and mentally challenged adults and children, as a childcare worker with Family Services of Vancouver, and as a physical theatre and circus skills teacher. His volunteer work includes projects with Oxfam and Amnesty International, among others. He celebrated 20 years as a Big Brother with his little bro Brian in May, 2011.

Peter was born in Conway Ontario, pop. 55, on his family’s dairy farm, and is the youngest of nine children. The father of two wild and wonderful kids, Peter is always looking at what work is most closely in line with his heart's truest desires, and moving in that direction.

TESTIMONIALS:
"The feedback from clients has always been stellar with Peter. He's funny, a great improviser and a tireless worker. He'll make your event something to remember!”
Kristi Heath, Heath Tarlin Entertainment Inc. Toronto, Ontario

“Peter Graham-Gaudreau's energy is magnetic. He worked the room of 300 people and had everyone smiling and clapping the entire performance. He is a brilliant performer. The definitive "One Man Show"! " Jodi Harper, Events Producer / Toronto, Ont.

“Children are drawn to him the moment he enters the space. His presence with both children and adults alike is something to behold. He is just awesome!”
Debbie Tobin, Artistic Director, Children’s Arts Festival, Richmond B.C

"Peter G-G is an entertaining and thoroughly engaging performer, having performed for our events as hilarious, family-orientated, stiltwalking characters.
We always look forward to working with Peter G-G and hold him in high regard as a family entertainer." Anna Solich, Whistler Arts Council

“I loved that before the Vancouver match, there was a guy on stilts playing pickup soccer with neighborhood children.” Joe Rhodes, NEW YORK TIMES

Pete was such a refreshing joy to work with. On an incredibly tight and challenging production he overwhelmed us with his infectious enthusiasm, perseverance, responsiveness, and adaptability. He is a go-to creative project manager especially wired for leading in a collaborative environment. His knowledge and skill with large scale, group puppetry was especially impressive.
Laura Grieco, Managing Director, Public Dreams Society

"As an event planner I've had the opportunity to use Peter at a variety of different events. As a musician, he never fails to please the crowd, no matter the type of event or age of the audience. I don't think there's ever been a request that he's failed to deliver. When in need of a musician I've got Peter on speed dial!" Nancy Antoclic, Event Planner, Vancouver BC

“We were so thrilled to have Peter entertain the guests at our event again this year! He is not only a talented musician with a wide repertoire and the ability to roll with the vibe of any age group and genre, but he’s also a natural comedian and gets the crowd going with his easy, confident and fun personality.” Wendy Riches, Coordinator, Metro Vancouver Feast of Fields

“Peter performed at our farm during Feast of Fields. Despite being 1 musician on 5 acres surrounded by over 1000 people, he appeared to be everywhere! Each time I saw him, he was engaging with people and really keeping the atmosphere light and fun. We really enjoyed having Peter here and would not hesitate to book him again for future events.” Cathy, Owner, Laurica Farms

"My husband and I heard Pete play at the Cypress Ski Lodge, and after a great night of dancing, singing, and laughing, we agreed that we had to have him play at our wedding! (We weren't even engaged yet!!) Pete had such a warm energy and his love for music and entertaining was so infectious, we knew that our friends and family would love him as much as we did - and we were right. Pete went over and above to ensure that the music on our wedding day was everything we hoped for, even helping me to compose a song. We are so grateful that Pete was a part of our special day."
- Kate and Chad

"Peter Graham-Gaudreau is a magician. I know, because I saw him at work. He took our rambunctious class of Grade 3's and 4's and turned them into terrific singer/songwriters. It was a wondrous collaboration and to the kids it was all fun. I know it made them feel so good to go from an idea to a finished, polished song they could sing in front of the whole school to wild applause. It was an experience they, and I, will never forget. It's a very unusual talent Pete has."

Lindsay Forsberg, Student Support Worker, Bayview Community School

For stilts, nothing required except a changeroom, table and chair.
For The Let's Make A Song! show
Tech Rider – Peter G-G - 2017

- 2 to (preferably) 4 microphones on stands, placed at kid level
- 1 wireless headset mic
- 1 DI box for guitalele
- 1 instrument cable for guitalele (I have one if you don’t)
- 1 monitor
- 1 Large Whiteboard or Chalkboard – erasable and movable please

STAGE PLOT:

AUDIENCE

STAGE

Monitor / DI
Mic Mic (Peter G-G) Mic Mic

WHITEBOARD