How often do you have a chance to thank your piano teacher for all those lessons your parents paid for so many years ago?
The Dalles Civic Auditorium will give you a chance to do just that when “Piano Night at the Civic” is presented on Thursday, Oct. 9.
The concert will feature blues virtuoso David Vest on piano, with guitarist Terry Robb as guest musician. Rounding out the dynamic musicians will be Albert Reda on bass, and Jeff Minnick drums.
Tickets are $12 per person in advance at Klindts Booksellers and Columbia River Music in The Dalles, or $ 15 at the door. Concert starts at 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
The piano which will be used for the show is a “Grotrian Steinweg Grand Piano” which has been in use at the Civic since 2005. The evening is an appreciation night for local piano teacher Jill Minnick and the many local dedicated piano teachers.
David Vest is an authentic, Southern-bred boogie-woogie piano player, blues shouter and world-class entertainer.
Born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1943, David grew up in Birmingham near Tuxedo Junction. He played his first paying gig in 1957, and by the time he opened for Roy Orbison on New Year’s Day 1962, he was a seasoned veteran of Gulf Coast roadhouses and honky-tonks.
David now resides in Canada. His first Canadian recording, “East Meets Vest,” was named one of the best blues albums of 2012 by Holger Petersen of CBC’s Saturday Night Blues and earned a Maple nomination for Recording of the Year. He will be touring widely to promote his highly-anticipated new release, “Roadhouse Revelation.”
Terry Robb has long been considered one of the top acoustic blues guitarists. His dynamic, signature fingerpicking style and ability to sound like a hard, yet sophisticated, band all within a solo performance has amazed audiences worldwide and earned him international acclaim.
A member of the Oregon Music Hall of Fame and Cascade Blues Association Hall of Fame, Terry is an icon of the vibrant Pacific Northwest music scene.
A perennial Muddy Award winner, having won the Muddy Award for Best Acoustic Guitar an unprecedented 19 consecutive years, he is honored by the Cascade Blues Association with a namesake award: the “Terry Robb" Best Acoustic Guitar Muddy Award.
Albert Reda is a well-known musician in his own right. Over the last 25 years Albert has played with Northwest music artists such as Terry Robb, Lloyd Jones, Duffy Bishop, Bill Rhodes, Robbie Laws, who are all members of the Cascade Blues Association’s hall of fame. He’s received 11 “Muddy” awards from the Cascade Blues Association and has been inducted into their hall of fame for winning the award for Bass three years running.
Local The Dalles resident Jeff Minnick rounds out the quartet on drums. Jeff was born and raised in The Dalles. He’s lived in Texas and in Portland but has returned home. Jeff began playing drums at age 17 and has been playing professionally for about 40 years.
This is also a benefit concert for The Civic Auditorium and is being sponsored by Big River Family Insurance/All State, Squrl’s Blues Music, 2 Dogs Plumbing, and The Pines 1852.
Concert organizer and drummer Jeff Minnick and friends have created what will be an enjoyable evening of Blues music which will feature that grand piano. Concert goers will be treated to some fine blues music by a few well-known musicians.
David has been touring since the age of 17 with musicians such Jerry Woodard and the Esquires. He jammed with Ace Cannon, Bill Black’s Combo and the Jimmy Dorsey Band in clubs along the Florida Panhandle, where fellow Alabaman James Harman would soon make his mark.
About the time he turned 21 he found himself onstage with Big Joe Turner, who said that David Vest’s playing made him feel like he was back in Kansas City. His first recording featured the last song written by Alton Delmore. David himself wrote the first songs recorded by Tammy Wynette. He toured with Faron Young, backed Red Foley, worked in a theatre with Fannie Flagg and became the first American artist to record in Romania.
He toured with Jimmy T99 Nelson and Miss Lavelle White, when he wasn’t jamming with Arnett Cobb, Milt Larkin, Jimmy Ford and Straight No Chaser in Houston. From 2002 through 2006, he was co-leader of the Paul deLay Band, reaching the Top Ten on Billboard’s national blues chart with The Last of the Best.
Born in British Columbia, Terry was raised in the United States and resides in Portland, Oregon. His early associations include Frank Zappa/Captain Beefheart alumnus Ramblin’ Rex, Henry Vestine of Canned Heat, and the legendary steel-string guitarist John Fahey from whom he learned and has been associated with the genre of American Primitivism.
Terry’s extensive musical catalog ranges from solo acoustic guitar, ensembles and bands, to full orchestras, and includes elements of fingerstyle, blues, rock, swing, ragtime, old timey, bluegrass, country, jazz, Latin, hymns, spirituals, and holiday music. His discography includes collaborations with famed musicians John Fahey, Eddy Clearwater, Maria Muldaur, Ike Willis, Curtis Salgado and Glen Moore.
He has been a special guest of the Oregon Symphony, Portland Art Museum and Portland Trailblazers, and receives frequent invitations to teach at workshops and festivals across the country. His work is reviewed regularly in major publications such as featured articles in Acoustic Guitar magazine.
Terry has toured North America and Europe as a solo artist, performing at and headlining major festivals, and with heavyweight musicians Buddy Guy and Steve Miller. He has shared the stage with the likes of B.B. King, Albert Lee, Joe Cocker, Robert Cray, Leo Kottke, Rick Wakeman and countless other All-Stars. When at home, he performs regularly throughout the Pacific Northwest and is a member of the virtuoso trio Acoustic Guitar Summit, celebrating their 20th anniversary concert series in 2014.
He’s also played bass, guitar and/or piano with a variety of artists outside the Blues realm, including Jon Koonce, John Bunzow and others, and played on sessions for dozens of CD’s by other artists here in Portland. In 2002 Albert released a CD of his own, Complicated Life to great revues in the Oregonian and the CBA Blues Notes. He’ll be releasing a new CD of original songs in 2014.
Local The Dalles resident, Jeff Minnick, rounds out the quartet on drums. Jeff was born and raised in The Dalles. He’s lived in Texas and in Portland but has returned home. Jeff began playing drums at age 17 and has been playing professionally for about 40 years. He has played with Junior Brown, The Derailers, the Paul deLay Band, Terry Robb, Steve Bradley, and Duffy Bishop just to name a few. Locally, he was a member of the Wasco Brothers band.
The Dalles Civic Auditorium is located at 232 E. 4th Street, The Dalles, Oregon. More information at www.TheDallesCivic.org
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