Two Way Street Live Stream : Jim Kanas

Tune in every Friday night at 8:00 pm CDT to this website www.twowaystreet.org to see a special livestream virtual concert from the comfort and safety of your couch!

On Friday, May 14th, Two Way Street Coffee House Friday Night Concert Series presents Jim Kanas.         

Jim Kanas is a guitarist from Northern Illinois. As a teenager Jim studied classical music and jazz improvisation and through educational and other venues found himself in the company of many jazz performers and educators including Pat Metheny, George Benson, Gary Burton and Stan Kenton to name a few. Also, at that time Jim was performing with then neighboring high school student/saxophonist Bill Evans sat-in with veteran blues man Eddy Clearwater. Jim won consecutive awards as a jazz guitarist in the Chicago land area and then later pursued his love and "hobby" of playing bluegrass, folk and traditional music. He then once again found himself surrounded by and jamming with influential musicians such as Steve Goodman, Corky Siegel, the Nashville Cats, Allison Krause, Harvey Ried, Jethro Burns and others. Jim broadened out his performance base to include pedal steel guitar, fiddle, banjo, harmonica, mandolin, dobro and vocals and toured regionally as a sideman with many country-oriented groups.