Curtis Nowosad will be performing at the Streaming Café in Kelowna on Friday, May 30th, 2014 (with opening act Urbanbirds), and at the Vernon Jazz Club on Saturday, May 31st, 2014, as part of a Western Canada Tour, in support of my debut album, The Skeptic & the Cynic, which was released in late 2012. The album showcases original compositions alongside an eclectic mix of covers of songs by Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson, 2pac, and Black Star. For this recording, he enlisted a world-class band: Jimmy Greene on tenor saxophone, Derrick Gardner on trumpet, and Steve Kirby on bass, alongside homegrown musicians Will Bonness on piano, Julian Bradford on bass, and Laurent Roy on guitar. Pianist Taylor Eigsti, a two-time Grammy nominee, guests on one track, Pink Floyd’s “Welcome to the Machine.”