Burnaby-based Lache Cercel will perform with his Roma Jazz Ensemble at Jaz'N'theViolin Concert Series in Vancouver on March 19.
As Lache Cercel takes me through his room adorned with prestigious music awards, gold plaques and berets, I am curious about this musician, who was deemed “artist of the people” by the Romanian government.
Cercel later trained at Romania’s prestigious Academy of Arts to become one of that country's top musicians before leaving his homeland to come to Canada. Cercel spent his early days in this country as a musical exchange student in Ottawa. He then travelled to B.C. and spent years on Vancouver Island, where he would meet musicians like Diana Krall and Salvador Ferreras.
Cercel expressed the desire to keep his musical roots alive through Roma jazz — a genre made famous in the last century by French Roma guitarist Django Reinhardt — with his band members in the Roma Jazz Ensemble. He has wholly embraced the style, which merges eastern and western influences. “It gives me that happiness in my heart because every time I hear something about what we [have gone] through ... what people used to sing when we were slaves in a field, and putting all our brains together and become something using the best of what we got.”
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