Island Jazz presents Angela Verbrugge Quintet

Name: Island Jazz presents Angela Verbrugge Quintet
Start: 2024-09-27T18:30:00-03:00
End: 2024-09-27T20:30:00-03:00
Location: Baba's Lounge

Schedule

Fri Sep 27 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-03:00

Location

Baba's Lounge | Charlottetown, PE

Island Jazz presents vocalist Angela Verbrugge and pianist Ashley Wey for a special Island Jazz show on September 27 at 6:30 pm. These Vancouver Islanders will be joined by Island Jazz musicians Mat MacEachern on drums, Chris Martell on bass and Dan Rowswell on sax, offering a lively dinner show of fun and flirty classics with a modern twist to keep audiences on their toes.
All the way from Vancouver Island, vocalist Angela Verbrugge has been touring the world singing about love gone right, or very wrong. Her lyrics range from humorous to sweet and sour reflections. Her whimsical style takes inspiration from vintage movie, traditional swing era pop and American songbook such as those sung by Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole and Julie London alongside jazz standards made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormé and Newfoundland vocalist Heather Bambrick as well.
Born in Kingston, Ontario, Angela has a penchant for drama having studied theatre before moving to western Canada in 1997. Verbrugge has released three critically-acclaimed albums, in 2019, 2022 and the latest in May 2024 on USA-jazz labels. She won the JazzTimes’ Magazine poll for Best Female Vocalist, and was nominated for Jazz Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards. Rave reviews of her recordings have resulted in performance opportunities in Japan, Türkiye, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Taiwan, UK and many Canadian provinces all in the last four years.
Angela is joined by Ashley Wey, a vibrant, passionate and swingin’ pianist who turned pro at age fifteen and never looked back. Wey attended Humber under mentors such as Don Thompson before setting sail to play jazz on cruise lines and in Australia. Returning to settle in Victoria, she became one of the busiest most in-demand musicians as both a leader and an accompanist on Vancouver Island. An in-demand educator for all ages, Ashley also spent several years programming shows at Hermann’s Jazz Club, helping it weather the pandemic storm, curating programming, doing sound and operations. In one moment she will deliver a ridiculously swinging Oscar Peterson tribute. In the next, she is a tasteful interpreter of soul/pop sounds. Ashley’s on-stage charism and joy have built her a huge following in British Columbia.
Tickets are $25 at the door, or in advance only $20 with our special "ISLANDJAZZ" promo code at angelainpei.eventbrite.ca