J.P. Cormier & Jake Lauzon

Virtuoso musicians J.P. Cormier and Jake Lauzon team up for what promises to be a string and mind-bending performance at The Carleton on Thursday, May 7th. Show time for this extraordinary musical combo is 7:30 PM and tickets are $40 + HST. 36 years later after stepping on stage as professional union musician for the first time at the tender age of 13, J.P. Cormier is still going, and frighteningly, still getting better. 16 albums followed the success of his first, Another Morning, winning maor than a dozen ECMAs, a couple of Juno nominations, a Canadian Folk Music Award and 5 Music Nova Scotia Awards. Each album was a snapshot of each thing that he can do. There are fiddle albums, Mandolin, Banjo, Guitar, tribute records, songwriting collections, a purely astounding spectrum of talent and musical vision. His catalogue of recordings and the 150 or so records he’s produced on other artists, resemble the tapestry he weaves in live performance. Where he used to carry 3 and 4 piece bands, he tours alone now. Just him and the instruments Accolades aside, and there are many from people like Chet Atkins, Marty Stuart, Waylon Jennings, Gordon Lightfoot; JP sees himself as just…