19 Facts About Geoff Berner

Geoff Berner was born on 1971 and is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician from Vancouver.

In 2000, Geoff Berner was deported to Norway, where he discovered the Norwegian band Kaizers Orchestra, for whom he would later become a support act.

Geoff Berner released a humorous instructional booklet called How to be an Accordion Player in 2006.

In 2007, Geoff Berner released The Wedding Dance of the Widow Bride, a concept album with the theme of marriage, and second in his planned trilogy of klezmer records.

Geoff Berner collaborated with the Norwegian band Girl from Saskatoon on their 2007 album.

Geoff Berner signed with Vancouver-based Mint Records in 2010 and recorded Victory Party with producer Socalled.

In February 2019, Geoff Berner released a video for the Canadiana Grotesquica track "Super Subtle Folk Song" in response to the National Energy Board's second recommendation to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Geoff Berner is close friends with American ukulele player Carmaig de Forest, and covers his compositions regularly on tour, and recorded his song "In the Year 2020" on his We Shall Not Flag or Fail, We Shall Go On to the End album.

Geoff Berner is Jewish, which is reflected in his klezmer song "Lucky God Damn Jew".

Between 1988 and 2001, Geoff Berner was active in the Green Party of British Columbia and was a member of former leader Stuart Parker's inner circle.

Geoff Berner ran as a candidate at the federal and provincial levels in the general elections of 1991,1993,1996 and 1997.

In recent years, Geoff Berner has expressed intense environmental concerns, and has thrown his support behind the newly launched BC Ecosocialist Party.

Geoff Berner calls out for recognition of the importance of self-management against COVID pandemic, Long COVID and its dangerousness, the importance of wearing a mask and taking care of others.

Geoff Berner even composed seven folk songs on this subject, released in 7 Plague Songs in 2023.

Geoff Berner has made claims on social media about alleged Vancouver police racist behaviours, and makes statements in favour of defunding the Vancouver police system.

In 2013, Geoff Berner released his first novel, Festival Man, with Dundurn Press.

In 2017, Geoff Berner released the novel The Fiddler is a Good Woman, with Dundurn Press.

Geoff Berner wrote over a dozen sketches for Sesame Park, the CBC version of Sesame Street, including animated short "Doug the Monster" and "Alison's Magic Kettle" in 1993, the first televised children's program in the world to overtly depict same-sex couples raising children.

Geoff Berner wrote several episodes during the third and fourth seasons of the animated series Ed, Edd n Eddy.