occopies the violin chair of the band. That's right, the violin chair: the Cure-All Band is faithfull to the pattern set by the great dance bands of the 20's and 30's, which included such violinists as Matt Mellneck and Joe Venuti.
A long time resident of the Comox Valley, Ann played the viola for many years in the community orchestra and various chamber ensembles. Now, when not beetling up and down the fingerboard of her 1921 Carlo Micelli violin, Ann beetles around Happy Creek Farm, tending her flower and vegetable gardens and nut trees.

 I have been playing trombone for nigh on 50 years. Playing with Cure-All has been a great and rewarding experience. Having a Bachelors degree in music, I have had the opportunity to play a multitude of musical styles. I am looking forward to sliding through the twenties and thirties with this great band.

Donna has  recently retired from teaching music: in district  elementary schools, Suzuki piano lessons and pre-school music classes. After many years of encouraging students and families to pursue music, she has now taken the opportunity to perform music herself with the Cure-All Band.

'Growler Grinder has played sax for almost as long as he can remember...which is a long ,long time! Jim really enjoys playing the charts from the twenties on his vintage Conn Soprano Sax (1925). Previously, Jim spent 35 years as a music educator/ performing arts coordinator for S.D.#71(Comox Valley) and more recently was on faculty at Malaspina University-College. He taught music in Summerland for 15 years and developed an instrumental jazz and concert band program that won provincial and national acclaim.

Better known as one of the valleys favorite jazz pianists, Brent "Hits Man" Hart loves the opportunity to play his alto sax and 1922 french clarinet. "The hardest part of my role as music director of the band is to choose which of the great hits from the 20's to play, and which ones to leave out."

The low man of the group, this silver-plated sousaphone player drives the beat and keeps the dancers moving. From his Quadra Island abode and pottery studio, Gorde enjoys the weekly trek to band practice and early jazz enlightenment. To learn more visit his web-site at : www.jamespottery.com

 Born at an early age, Greg "Doc" Sumner soon deduced that being a musician beat working for a living.  He did just that for forty-six years singing, acting, playing piano, banjo, cornet, tuba, guitar, string bass, french horn, mandolin, etc. in the complete gamut of settings.   His love of 1920's dance music propelled him around the world since 1977 in search of authentic arrangements, recordings and sheet music.  Summers found him often in the Yukon on stage with the Vaudeville Tourist Shows and winters in Australia and New Zealand with Vintage Jazz Bands. 
    Before founding the "Cure All Dance Band" in the Comox Valley he started the  "Steamboat Stompers", the "Fidgety Feet Four", the "Ragtime Rascals", the "Canadian Capers Ragtime Orchestra" and the "Belvedere Broadcasters" all in Victoria, BC.  He played Arts Council Concerts with "Felix Possak and His Banjo Palace Band" across the country and featured at the CNE Exibition and Klondike Days.   Many seasons at the Butchart Gardens rounded out his career and he now enjoys travelling about on Cargoships and complaining full-time about his bad back which he got from improperly lifting gramophones and crates of old 78's

A talented multi-instrumentalist, Al can more than hold his own on trombone, tuba, string bass, guitar and of course, banjo.

Since moving to the Comox Valley in 1972 as a music teacher, Tom has been active playing clarinet and saxophone in pit orchestras with Coval, Rainbow Youth Theatre, Light Fantastic Productions, CYMC, Showcase Festival and Vanier and Highland Secondary Schools, as well as in other musical situations. The pit orchestra experience is often challenging and is always rewarding musically. Tom thoroughly enjoys playing the Curealldanceband style of music, stretches his remaining grey cells learning to play jazz in the Georgia Straight Big Band, and gives occasional lessons on clarinet.

I boarded the good ship Cure-All as drummer in summer of 2009. It's an honour to sail with a crew so select, after 40 years away from it, with tramping cargo ships. The music reminds me of mom's stride piano playing that she learned in the 20's and performed for decades.