Fall 2024
There is no better place to warm up than at cozy cozy Cellar Cat. Convivial conversation. Wine talk. Cat talk. Dogs. Boats. Seahawks. Jazz. Orcas. Always the ferries. Art. Kingston. Never a dull moment. A jigsaw on the big table. Checkers, chess and backgamon, a little Trivial Pursuit. A social place to gather with friends over excellent wine. Quiet and romantic for love birds. Join us for a nice glass or bottle of wine (or two), a bite of cheese, a chunk of chocolate, enjoy great company, make new friends, meet up with old ones, home-away-from home all served up in an intimate, artful, relaxing, jazz and wine venue.
For each performance, we create a seating arrangement based on group size and date of ticket purchase. Seating is limited and we can't generally accept requests for specific seats. Please let us know at time of purchase if you would like to be seated with another party.
For each performance, we create a seating arrangement based on group size and date of ticket purchase. Seating is limited and we can't generally accept requests for specific seats. Please let us know at time of purchase if you would like to be seated with another party.
LIVE MUSIC - mostly JAZZ & Blues
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Cellar Cat features live music four nights each week. All ticket sales go directly to the musicians and related expenses - licensing, perfomance-related insurance, musician perks - when ticket sales are low Cellar Cat subsidizes the live music. As such, we ask a $20 per person minimum for those enjoying the live music, to help us pay the rent, utilities, wages, and more. Without the minimum, there is no Cellar Cat and therefore no regular live music in Kingston.
Reservations on NON-TICKETED nights a great idea - [email protected] or 360-979-7925 - SRO is common, and with only 35 seats those seats have a $20 per person minimum (meaning, we pay the musicians, the rent, the bills & you spend at least - ideally more than - $20 to keep the music going. Libraries are free. Fresh air: free. Cellar Cat: can't afford free - to like us, to like live high-end jazz, is to support us and the MEWsicians. And tip them well too - bring cash!!). Ticket sales go to the musicians - purchases keep Cellar Cat open to provide the music and more. Please tip musicians (& wait cats) generously - and shop local. Keep the music alive. FIRST THURSDAYS AT CELLAR CAT!! WINE-KNOW.
JOIN US first Thursdays of the remaining 2024 months of October, November & December and taste with CORK DORK Holly Evans-White, she of the big wine resume.
Make sure you are on the email list as our regulars, folks on the mailing list, are the first invited to these special, educational tastings that, if you have met us, are too fun but you will still leave wine-smarter than before. 95% of all Cellar Cat wines are small production and unlikely to be seen anywhere outside of a fine dining restaurant, winery, wine shop or wine bar. Now that the jazzzz is flowing smoothly we can turn our attention to that thing we've been doing all of our adult lives: WINE! 
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THIS Friday, October 11th, from 7 - 10 p.m. Bruce brings the TRUMPET, the croon and the swoon to CELLAR CAT to USHER IN FALL!! No cover. A few drinks pays The Cat & Tips pay the Piano man.
A lifelong musician who took a 20 year hiatus to work in Seattle for the FBI as a special agent, Bruce Cosacchi is known as the founder of the Foggy Bottom Jazz Band where he played coronet. Drummer, singer, piano-man, multi-instrumentalist Bruce is famous in greater Seattle as the trumpet player who performed from his deck on the Hood Canal every night at 8 p.m. during the pandemic in solidarity of those front-line workers who risked their lives daily to help others. Every evening, during the pandemic's most frightening days, neighbors and "audience" attendees - many driving from great distances to experience from a Covid-safe distance stop the hoods of their cars - shined lights on the performance, blared horns, cheered, creating a daily symphony of gratitude.
Drop in! No cover. Reservations a great idea - [email protected] or 360-979-7925 - SRO is common, and with only 35 seats those seats have a $20 minimum unless you are waiting for the ferry, then pop in, get your ferry snacks, have a beer, sip a glass, we'll get you going!
A lifelong musician who took a 20 year hiatus to work in Seattle for the FBI as a special agent, Bruce Cosacchi is known as the founder of the Foggy Bottom Jazz Band where he played coronet. Drummer, singer, piano-man, multi-instrumentalist Bruce is famous in greater Seattle as the trumpet player who performed from his deck on the Hood Canal every night at 8 p.m. during the pandemic in solidarity of those front-line workers who risked their lives daily to help others. Every evening, during the pandemic's most frightening days, neighbors and "audience" attendees - many driving from great distances to experience from a Covid-safe distance stop the hoods of their cars - shined lights on the performance, blared horns, cheered, creating a daily symphony of gratitude.
Drop in! No cover. Reservations a great idea - [email protected] or 360-979-7925 - SRO is common, and with only 35 seats those seats have a $20 minimum unless you are waiting for the ferry, then pop in, get your ferry snacks, have a beer, sip a glass, we'll get you going!
Saturday, October 12th JONAS MYERS RETURNS to Cellar Cat
7 - 10 p.m. no cover - $20 per person minimum - bring cash to tip the piano man!
Jonas Myers is a musician, writer, teacher, bicycle wanderer, and proud lifelong Cascadian. He has performed at Lincoln Center in New York, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, and the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy. He attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, where he majored in English with a focus on creative writing and minored in mathematics.
In his twenties, Jonas gained recognition as a jazz pianist, composer and bandleader on the Seattle scene. In 2018, he spent five months wandering the West Coast on his bicycle. These travels, fueled by the generosity of countless strangers, were to have a profound influence on his music and writing. He returned to Seattle in 2019 and recorded an album of original songs, featuring a nine-piece ensemble, titled “Driving Home.” In 2021, he created a livestream variety show on YouTube called “North City Almanac,” featuring artists from around the Pacific Northwest. That same year, he moved to Corvallis, Oregon, for an MFA program in fiction at OSU, from which he graduated in 2023.
He now lives in Port Townsend, WA, where he performs and teaches music. For more on Jonas & YouTube links go to: https://www.jonasmyers.com/
7 - 10 p.m. no cover - $20 per person minimum - bring cash to tip the piano man!
Jonas Myers is a musician, writer, teacher, bicycle wanderer, and proud lifelong Cascadian. He has performed at Lincoln Center in New York, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, and the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy. He attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, where he majored in English with a focus on creative writing and minored in mathematics.
In his twenties, Jonas gained recognition as a jazz pianist, composer and bandleader on the Seattle scene. In 2018, he spent five months wandering the West Coast on his bicycle. These travels, fueled by the generosity of countless strangers, were to have a profound influence on his music and writing. He returned to Seattle in 2019 and recorded an album of original songs, featuring a nine-piece ensemble, titled “Driving Home.” In 2021, he created a livestream variety show on YouTube called “North City Almanac,” featuring artists from around the Pacific Northwest. That same year, he moved to Corvallis, Oregon, for an MFA program in fiction at OSU, from which he graduated in 2023.
He now lives in Port Townsend, WA, where he performs and teaches music. For more on Jonas & YouTube links go to: https://www.jonasmyers.com/
Saturday, October 19th - James Murray, more entertaining than a litter of kittens - returns, playing 7 - 10 p.m.
First & Third Saturdays every month marvelous James Murray performs from 7 - 10 p.m. all varieties of music from original compositions to Billy Joel to Michael MacDonald. James does a wonderful Stevie Wonder and a spectacular Stevie Nicks.
James is well-known and in high demand throughout the west-of-Sound region, both as an entertaining musician but also as an excellent piano tuner. truesoundpianos.com
Although reservations are highly recommended: [email protected] or 360-979-7925 dropping in works too. SRO is common, and with only 35 seats those seats have a $20 minimum unless you are waiting for the ferry: then pop in, get your ferry snacks, have a beer, sip a glass, we'll get you going!
First & Third Saturdays every month marvelous James Murray performs from 7 - 10 p.m. all varieties of music from original compositions to Billy Joel to Michael MacDonald. James does a wonderful Stevie Wonder and a spectacular Stevie Nicks.
James is well-known and in high demand throughout the west-of-Sound region, both as an entertaining musician but also as an excellent piano tuner. truesoundpianos.com
Although reservations are highly recommended: [email protected] or 360-979-7925 dropping in works too. SRO is common, and with only 35 seats those seats have a $20 minimum unless you are waiting for the ferry: then pop in, get your ferry snacks, have a beer, sip a glass, we'll get you going!
Live music. October
Piano bar EVERY Friday & Saturday 7 - 10 p.m. no cover. $20 per person minimum
Bruce Cosacchi every Friday 7 - 10 p.m.
James Murray First & Third Saturdays 7 - 10 p.m.
OCTOBER
Thursday 10th 7 - 9 p.m. Dmitri Matheny Trio $20
Saturday 12th 7 - 10 p.m. Jonas Myers - piano no cover
Sunday 13th 6:30 - 9 p.m. Bill Anschell & Brent Jensen $20
Thursday 17th 7 - 9 p.m. Nick Allison & Carrie Wicks $20
Sunday 20th 6:30 - 9 p.m. Duende Libre $20
Thursday 24th 7 - 9 p.m. Ranger & the “Rearrangers” $20
Saturday 26th 7 - 10 p.m. Bruce & Bill Old school piano bar - no cover
Sunday 27th 6:30 - 9 p.m. Greta Matassa Quartet $20
Thursday 31st 6:30 - 9 p.m. Jean Lenke does HALLOWEEN!! $25 - it's going to be a MONSTER MASH!!
Piano bar EVERY Friday & Saturday 7 - 10 p.m. no cover. $20 per person minimum
Bruce Cosacchi every Friday 7 - 10 p.m.
James Murray First & Third Saturdays 7 - 10 p.m.
OCTOBER
Thursday 10th 7 - 9 p.m. Dmitri Matheny Trio $20
Saturday 12th 7 - 10 p.m. Jonas Myers - piano no cover
Sunday 13th 6:30 - 9 p.m. Bill Anschell & Brent Jensen $20
Thursday 17th 7 - 9 p.m. Nick Allison & Carrie Wicks $20
Sunday 20th 6:30 - 9 p.m. Duende Libre $20
Thursday 24th 7 - 9 p.m. Ranger & the “Rearrangers” $20
Saturday 26th 7 - 10 p.m. Bruce & Bill Old school piano bar - no cover
Sunday 27th 6:30 - 9 p.m. Greta Matassa Quartet $20
Thursday 31st 6:30 - 9 p.m. Jean Lenke does HALLOWEEN!! $25 - it's going to be a MONSTER MASH!!
HOW WINE WORKS - class numero dos -Nov. 7th, 5:30 p.m.
How does wine work? Standing in a big box store or presented with a wine menu at a restaurant, "how wine works" may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but to really KNOW wine at all, to be able to face a restaurant sommelier or a wine shop steward, knowing how wine works, from harvest to cellar to market, makes all the difference.
Wine is a simple beverage that over time has grown wildly complex.
The primary goal of Cellar Cat's introduction to HOW WINE WORKS is to help existing wine enthusiasts gain a working understanding of what the wine fan is looking at when they look at a bottle of wine or a wine list.
In Class TWO we will continue with HOW WINE WORKS by focusing on red wine. Class three we will, in honor of the holidays, do sparkling wine/champagne (bubbles).
In addition to getting first dibs on subsequent classes, those in attendance at these three Thursday classes will also have free admission (for the attendee only) to the evening's live ticketed jazz performance that beginas at 7 p.m., immediately after the class. So you want to be a wine-know? Join me.
Wine is a simple beverage that over time has grown wildly complex.
The primary goal of Cellar Cat's introduction to HOW WINE WORKS is to help existing wine enthusiasts gain a working understanding of what the wine fan is looking at when they look at a bottle of wine or a wine list.
In Class TWO we will continue with HOW WINE WORKS by focusing on red wine. Class three we will, in honor of the holidays, do sparkling wine/champagne (bubbles).
In addition to getting first dibs on subsequent classes, those in attendance at these three Thursday classes will also have free admission (for the attendee only) to the evening's live ticketed jazz performance that beginas at 7 p.m., immediately after the class. So you want to be a wine-know? Join me.