The Lighthouse Nanaimo: Angela Verbrugge Quartet (feat. jazz vibraphonist Craig Scott) play the Greatest Love Songs at Lighthouse Bistro And Pub

Which are the “greatest” love songs popularized during the 1930s to 1950s? Come to Frankie’s on Thursday April 10 to hear award-winning jazz vocalist Angela Verbrugge’s favourites alongside her own originals inspired by this style! Look forward to an evening of fun, romantic, and swingin’ vocal jazz with the dazzling sound of Craig Scott’s lustrous vibraphone improvisations to tug at your heart strings.

Vancouver Island vocalist Angela Verbrugge was nominated for Jazz Artist of the Year at the 2024 Western Canadian Music Awards. In 2025, All About Jazz announced that Verbrugge had topped their Reader Poll for Favourite Living Jazz Vocalist and in 2020 Angela won the JazzTimes’ Readers’ Poll for best female vocalist. She "possesses a winsome, brightly-burnished, pliable voice, ample emotional intelligence, and conspicuously good taste,” and according to JazzTimes, and “for Verbrugge, now is the time.” Angela’s three albums featured standout arrangements of standards and original songs in the style of the Great American Songbook. The projects received praise in All About Jazz, JazzTimes, Jazzwise, Couleurs France, Syncopated Times, Jersey Jazz, LA Jazz Scene and publications around the world leading to tours to Japan, Taiwan, Türkiye, the UK, Germany, France, Luxembourg and eight provinces, all since 2021. Her music has charted on JazzWeek, been featured by CBC and NPR, and she held the number one spot on the Earshot Jazz charts for multiple weeks. Angela’s tracks have been streamed 850,000 times across streaming platforms since her debut in 2019....

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Which are the “greatest” love songs popularized during the 1930s to 1950s? Come to Frankie’s on Thursday April 10 to hear award-winning jazz vocalist Angela Verbrugge’s favourites alongside her own originals inspired by this style! Look forward to an evening of fun, romantic, and swingin’ vocal jazz with the dazzling sound of Craig Scott’s lustrous vibraphone improvisations to tug at your heart strings.

Vancouver Island vocalist Angela Verbrugge was nominated for Jazz Artist of the Year at the 2024 Western Canadian Music Awards. In 2025, All About Jazz announced that Verbrugge had topped their Reader Poll for Favourite Living Jazz Vocalist and in 2020 Angela won the JazzTimes’ Readers’ Poll for best female vocalist. She "possesses a winsome, brightly-burnished, pliable voice, ample emotional intelligence, and conspicuously good taste,” and according to JazzTimes, and “for Verbrugge, now is the time.” Angela’s three albums featured standout arrangements of standards and original songs in the style of the Great American Songbook. The projects received praise in All About Jazz, JazzTimes, Jazzwise, Couleurs France, Syncopated Times, Jersey Jazz, LA Jazz Scene and publications around the world leading to tours to Japan, Taiwan, Türkiye, the UK, Germany, France, Luxembourg and eight provinces, all since 2021. Her music has charted on JazzWeek, been featured by CBC and NPR, and she held the number one spot on the Earshot Jazz charts for multiple weeks. Angela’s tracks have been streamed 850,000 times across streaming platforms since her debut in 2019.

Juno-nominated Craig Scott is an accomplished drummer and vibraphonist. His credits include concert and club dates with such luminaries as Tommy Banks, Phil Woods, Ernestine Anderson, Diana Krall, Herb Ellis, Clark Terry, Larry Goldings, the Hi-Lo’s, Dee Daniels, The Nylons, Joan Rivers, Don Rickles, Ashley McIsaac, Natalie McMaster, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Rosemary Clooney, and Charlie Byrd.

"No maybes; for Verbrugge, now is definitely the time," JazzTimes Magazine (print edition), Andrew Gilbert

“Listen and be delighted. Her art is her own, and she offers rare pleasures.” JazzLives

“As a lyricist Miss Verbrugge seems to have “learned” from the best: one senses the wit of Dave Frishberg, the glorious storytelling of Dorothy Fields and Johnny Mercer, and – all of that and a tinge of pathos that was the hallmark of songs by Cole Porter. However, make no mistake, these lyrics are singularly Miss Verbrugge’s.” That Canadian Magazine


Angela Verbrugge - vocals
Craig Scott - vibraphone
Kosma Busheikin - bass
Graham Villette - drums

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