Bob Pina plays standards, jazz, blues, and requests on our grand piano every Tuesday and Saturday night. Well-known throughout Southern Illinois as an accomplished keyboard player and vocalist, he has played piano and saxophone with bands such as Coal Kitchen, Rolls Hardley, and Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows, and currently plays piano with Southern Swing. Bob’s self-produced CD, “Harvest from the Public Domain,” features him playing and singing his original arrangements of favorites from years past. Currently, Bob is in the process of recording a new CD merging his unique style with well-known blues standards.
Bob is also an accomplished artist, whose paintings have won awards in many area art shows, including the HerrinFesta Italiana Art Exhibit. He works mostly in oil, and to a lesser degree in acrylics and watercolors. In his travels around Southern Illinois, Bob says he is constantly awed by the region's natural beauty and charm, which have inspired many of his paintings.
