Gig tonight with The Offering of Curtis Andrews

I have a gig at Presentation House Studio tonight with The Offering of Curtis Andrews.  8:30 downbeat, only $8 admission.  333 Chesterfield in North Vancouver.

Curtis is a fantastic percussionist/drummer/composer who has recently moved to Vancouver from Newfoundland.  In fact, some of my father's ancestors and my wife's father's ancestors are from the same little town as the Andrews family, Port de Grave, Newfoundland.  Perhaps we are very distantly related...

Curtis has studied south Indian and West African  styles of drumming and he combines these with other influences from jazz, rock, etc into a wonderfully groovy polyrhythmic stew. 

The band is a great group of players: Curtis (drum kit), Jack Duncan (percussion), Colin Maskell (saxes/flute), JP Carter (trumpet), Robin Layne (marimba), Tommy Babin (bass), and yours truly on guitar.

 Here is a picture of Curtis in Ghana.  He leads special trips to a little village called Dzogadze for people interested in learning about the music, dance, and cultural practices in this part of the world.