On September 30, Canadian folk troubadour Peter Katz brings his Canadian fall tour to the Big Hall of the London Music Club in the wake of releasing his new live album, Peter Katz and Friends Live at the Music Gallery last week. The tour kicked off last week on September 23 at Toronto's Music Gallery, commemorating the release in the most symbolic way possible.

Katz is a tour de force on Canadian folk and indie scenes since impressing himself on hearts and ears with his debut LP The One Minute Mile Man in 2004. Since then, he's gone on to release two more studio albums and one EP, growing as an artist and winning the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, joining a cast of recipients that includes Neil Young, Arkells, Dan Mangan, Joel Plaskett and more.

Recorded in Toronto in May of 2010, Live at the Music Gallery is a celebration of some of the finest artists and most beautiful music going today. The concert at the Music Gallery in Toronto took place a couple of months after the release of Katz' 2010 effort First of the Last to Know, which rose to number one on the Canadian iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart.

Part of what makes Live at the Music Gallery so special and engaging is that the songs themselves are punctuated with introductions; Katz employs the intimate setting perfectly and takes the opportunity to provide a little background and colour on the material while engaging the audience, a mass who sound as though they're 1,000 people if they're a dozen.

The atmosphere in the room is breathtaking, and the shimmering guitars paired up with stunning vocals culminate in a listening experience that is as moving as the stories behind songs like "Oliver's Tune," "I Do" and "The Fence," the tragic story of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.

The tour also serves to generate awareness for Katz' fan-funding initiative to record and release a new studio album in 2012, for which he is offering pre—sales and perks that range from appearances in the liner notes to VIP tickets to future shows and even the opportunity to join Katz on tour next year.

For more information on the fundraising efforts and the Canadian fall tour now underway, visit peterkatz.com or follow him on Twitter @peterkatzmusic. For more information on the September 30 show at London Music Club specifically, visit tinyurl.com/katz-london.