Sunday Jazz: Moonlight and Mischief wAngela Verbrugge

Sunday January 18th 2026

doors 5pm jaaaazzzz 6-8pm

Moonlight and Mischief

INSPIRED BY MOONLIGHT SINATRA & SHARING MUSIC FROM THEIR NEW ALBUM "IN THE WONDER OF THE NIGHT"

ANGELA VERBRUGGE

NOMINATED JAZZ ARTIST OF THE YEAR

(2024 WESTERN CDN MUSIC AWARDS)

RAY GALLON

ACCLAIMED NYC JAZZ PIANIST (RON CARTER, LIONEL HAMPTON)

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.

"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 Po

rter. However, make no mistake, these lyrics are singularly Miss Verbrugge’s.” That Canadian Magazine, Raul da Gama

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Sunday Jazz Socials @Char's

On Sunday, the music is ongoing from 6pm-8pm. Doors open at 5pm. A voluntary suggested gratuity of $20 to $15 is appreciated. Attendees are welcome to bring their own snacks or supper. The beverage bar is open.

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Sunday Socials @Char's doors 5pm live music 6-8pm

Char's Landing 4815 Argyle Street at 5th Avenue, Port Alberni, beautiful Vancouver Island
Char's is friendly dog friendly, BYO food, Accompanied minors welcome to all events until 10pm
FMI text/call Char 250-730-1636 email info@charslanding.com www.charslanding.com
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