Petr Cancura steps into the spotlight at NAC

When Ottawa music fans in the thousands see Petr Cancura on stage, he’s usually there with a microphone in hand to say a few introductory words and then turn over the music-making in Confederation Park to a TD Ottawa Jazz Festival headliner.
But Cancura, who since 2011 has been the jazz festival’s highly visible programming manager, has also been plugging away at his own musical projects and working as a sideman, especially since he moved two-and-a-half years ago from Brooklyn back w