I have been dreading the possibility of having to make this post since discovering early in the week that my longtime friend, supporter and all-round enabler of the Toronto live music scene, Pete Otis, had collapsed following his set during his SongTown New Year’s Eve show at Black Swan Tavern.

Last night, on Sat. January 05, I am now told, he passed away after not regaining consciousness while in an induced coma in the intensive care unit at St. Michael’s Hospital.

I am too broken up about this to be able to write any kind of proper obituary at the moment but one will follow along with details about visitations and the funeral once I have that information.

-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca
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