Please join The Maria Ho Quartet at Frankie's Jazz Club, with pianist Michael Creber, bassist Paul Rushka, vocalist Maria Ho and drummer Dave Robbins on June 15th.

Where: 765 Beatty Street (near BC Place) 

When: 8pm

RSVP: Call[masked] to reserve a table, or visit: 
frankiesitaliankitchen.ca/reservations/.

A Meetup table will be set up for those who want to sit together. Richard will be there to greet everyone.

About Dave Robbins:

Dave Robbins is one of Canada’s premier jazz drummers and a first-rate composer, arranger and jazz educator.
Dave grew up in Victoria and was educated at McGill University in Montreal where he received his Masters in Jazz Studies. While in Montreal he toured and recorded in bands with Vic Vogel, Joe Sullivan, Altsys, and the Streetnix among others. In 1996 he could no longer resist the pull of the west coast, and is thrilled to have moved back.

Dave has played music all over the world, in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Cuba, Finland, France and Ireland. Musicians he has performed with include: Gary Bartz, Maynard Ferguson, Slide Hampton, Buddy Montgomery, Bob Minzer, PJ Perry and Don Thompson. Dave is also very involved as an educator. After teaching at McGill’s Conservatory of Music while in Montreal, he is now on the music faculty at Capilano University where he instructs arranging, drums, piano, and large ensembles.

About Michael Creber:

After recording and touring internationally with the Irish Rovers from 1981 to 1986 (including 36 episodes of Global TV’s Party With the Rovers), Michael went on to become one of k.d. lang's “Reclines.” During the next four years, he toured extensively and appeared with k.d. on the Johnny Carson Show, Arsenio Hall, Saturday Night Live, the Grammy Awards, Vicki Gabereau, Super Dave, The Smothers Brothers and Austin City Limits. Michael’s outstanding piano work from this period, heard on k.d.’s 1989 album Absolute Torch and Twang, was dubbed by one L.A. reviewer as “a cross between Floyd Cramer and Thelonius Monk.”

From 1992 to 1995 Michael toured, recorded and produced with world-renowned family entertainer Raffi. Highlights included a performance for US President Bill Clinton's first inauguration, a week of sold-out concerts at the Gershwin Theater in New York City (produced by Phil Ramone and released as a video entitled Raffi On Broadway) and a special performance at a Washington luncheon for Mikhail Gorbachev. Michael co-produced and co-wrote Raffi's 1994 CD Bananaphone (which won a Juno Award and was nominated for a Grammy), as well as his 1995 recording, Raffi Radio. He also co-produced Raffi’s most recent album Let’s Play. Michael’s credits as musical director include You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris and Tapestry: the Music of Carole King, a hit revue at Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre. In addition, he has played keyboards in the orchestra for productions of Miss Saigon and Tommy.