Our friends at the Roots and Wings Coffeehouse present a concert with the Draa Hobbs Quartet. Visit their website for details and tickets!

Draa Hobbs has been a professional musician for more than 40 years. He has played in clubs and concerts throughout New England, Boston, New York, Germany and France. A student of the late Hungarian guitarist Attila Zoller, Draa has performed with many jazz legends including Don Friedman, Ron McClure, Eliot Zigmund, Lee Konitz, as well as top tier guitarists Peter Bernstein, Vic Juris, and Steve Cardenas.

Draa has appeared on numerous CDs as a sideman and has released a CD “Solo Guitar.” His new CD of original music is in the final production stage. Draa is on the faculty at the Putney School, the Vermont Jazz Center, and the Upper Valley Music Center.

Rich Greenblatt is a vibraphonist “with dazzling speed and a truly magical touch,” writes John Blenn in Good Times Magazine. Recording artists with five CD’s as a leader, he combines the swinging style of Milt Jackson and the four-mallet technique of Gary Burton.

Rich is a full-professor at the Berklee College of Music, Music Director of the Cirque du Soleil Ensemble at Berklee, and endorses Musser vibraphones and Vic Firth Mallets. He has performed at jazz festivals and clubs in Europe and the United States.

Tim Gilmore lives in Lebanon, NH, and teaches at Plymouth State University and for Interplay Jazz and Arts. He is an active clinician and has recorded extensively.

Tim has worked with Tower of Power, Pete Seeger, Shawn Colvin, and has performed on PBS documentaries, an HBO mini-series, and the feature film: Vermont is for Lovers. He has appeared at the Cape May Jazz Festival, the Shenandoah Valley Jazz Festival, the Blue Note in New York City, and Ronnie Scott’s in London.

Wim Auer is a member of the Vermont Jazz Center Sextet in Brattleboro, VT. Wim has been playing jazz music since he was a kid. He played bass in a band called Antares while living in England during his formative years, and toured with a rock band called Prime Rib Band after returning to the United States.

Though he still plays with Draa Hobbs and other various jazz ensembles in Vermont, Wim retired from being a professional musician in 1986 and started a company called Chroma Technology.