Café 210 West will be hosting the Three Aces Memorial Benefit Concert for musicians without life or health insurance on Saturday night at 7, honoring deceased members of Queen Bee and the Blue Hornet Band, most recently Robert Ellison Dorsey.

Café 210 West is expecting a good turnout. The Blue Hornet Band was a Grammy-nominated band and always drew a college, community and regional crowd when they played, said Hal McCullough, owner of Café 210 West, 210 W. College Ave.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the six featured bands are the Blue Hornet Band, Maxwell Strait, Tyne and Fast Line, Jason McIntyre's Project, King Cotton Rounders and Northern Shovels.

"The Three Aces Memorial is a great summation of Bobby's life," said Mark Ross, former bandmate and owner of Alley Cat Music.

Dorsey, a State College resident and bandmate of Jason Zarecky and Tonya Browne, who are also being remembered, died on Jan. 9 after a 20-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

"He lived in New York and was playing in clubs before he was old enough to enter them," said Carol Dorsey, Robert Dorsey's widow.

As the father of two sons, Josh and Justin, Robert Dorsey worked two jobs, went back to school for a degree in marketing and was a successful musician.

He was just the type that liked to have a lot to do, Carol Dorsey added.

"It is not very complicated, but I want him to be remembered as a really special guy," she said. "He played music because of his passion for it -- not the attention it brought."

Along with being talented musicians, Robert Dorsey, Browne and Zarencky, all members of The Blue Hornet Band, were also upstanding people, Ross said.

"Bobby was really great at shuffle beat, but as well as he played, he was a better guy. Jason was the king of wah-wah, but as good as he was at that, he was a way better human being; and Tonya was the best blues singer this side of the Mississippi, but I treasured her friendship much more than her voice," said Ross.

In addition to The Blue Hornet Band, Dorsey created another band so that he could play with his two sons. "Bobby's greatest accomplishment was his music. He was all about music, which he passed to his sons, bringing his greatest joy of playing with them," Carol Dorsey said.

Robert Dorsey also volunteered at independent living option houses for the mentally challenged, United Way, Boy Scouts of America and Little League Baseball. "He was best when he was helping people," she said.

Last year Ross memorialized Browne with a Christmas tree to honor her accomplishments and hopes that this concert will be a similar memorial to Dorsey.

"I hope to make this an annual concert. I always like to do something to remember my friends," said Ross.