PETR CANCURA

Dan Nawrocki took these fantastic photos of the second edition of the NAC Presents Crossroads series with Lynn Miles. I am learning so much through this series. I love folk music and the raw and direct art of story telling…

Metropolitan Room Presents: A night of Global Jazz: Oscar Penas Crossroads, Uri Gurvich 4tet & Petr Cancura’s Down Home 

Friday, January 15th, 2016 

9:30 pm to 11:30 pm 

@Metropolitan Room 

34 West 22nd street 

New…

Yesterday I was featured on the front page of the arts section at the Ottawa Citizen as part of the promotion for Friday's Crossroads concert. A great article by Peter Hum!

http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/music/jazzblog/back-from-brooklyn-petr-cancura-finds-home-is-where-the-art-is

This Friday is the first of the Crossroads series concerts where we feature a fantastic singer songwriter with a killin' jazz quartet. The first one with Ian Tamblin this friday is getting some great press, including from Apartment 613:
http://apt613.ca/petr-cancura-on-taking-it-down-to-the-crossroads/…

I am very excited to announce that I will be a part of this year's NAC Presents series called Petr Cancura's Crossroads. I will be working with an unbelievable band including Roddy Ellias on guitar, John Geggie on bass…

And with that I am excited about some shows coming up:

4/17 Brooklyn Blowhards 
4/23 New Old Timers with Richie Barshay, Aryeh Kobrinsky and Jeremy Udden
4/24 Joe Morris with Jim Hobbs and Luther Grey
4/25 Down Home at Barbes…

Two awesome shows this weekend:

Saturday night at Barbes with The Brooklyn Blowhards:

Jeff Lederer - saxophonesPetr Cancura - saxophones
Kirk Knuffke - cornet
Brian Drye - trombone
Art Bailey - accordion
Allison Miller - drums
Mary Larosa Lederer -…

There is a lot of things going on next weekend, one of these awesome events is next friday, an evening of fun at Barbes with Down Home from 8-9pm and Ghost Train Orchestra from 9:30 - 10:30pm 

See you there…

 PC Quartet at Ditmas Acoustic Series in Brooklyn with Richie Barshay, Garth Stevenson and Jesse Lewis!

Hey everyone, we're coming soon!!! Check out Peter Hum's interview about Down Home:
http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/petr-cancura-comes-home-to-present-his-down-home-project

Interactive Improvisation Workshop
Co-Presented with the National Arts Center with 
JUNO Award Nominated, IMA Winning Group 
Petr Cancura’s Down Home 

Thursday Oct 30th 10am – 12pm              
National Arts Center’s Fourth Stage…

DOWN HOME CANADA TOUR COMING UP!

Oct 30^th NAC Presents, Ottawa ON
Nov 1^st The Jazz Room, Waterloo, ON
Nov 2^nd The Rex Hotel, Toronto, ON
Nov 6^th Ironworks, Vancouver, BC…