Here Comes 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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We suggest those holding advance tickets for performances arrive at least a half hour prior to performance time to allow time to settle in and order food and drinks before the show starts. We ask during these shows the audience keeps conversations to a whisper.
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!!). Thursdays and Sundays $20 - reservations available with advance tickets only No cover Fridays and Saturdays - $20 per person minimum for reserved seating 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. HARVEST PARTAY THURSDAYS AT CELLAR CAT!!
Drop in Thursdays in September and October between 4:30 - 6:30 to TASTE WINE WITH THE BIG CAT(s).
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! For the next two months we will be tasting 4 - 8 wines each week on Thursdays only from 4:30 - 6:30, before the 7:00 p.m. concert (music line up below). |
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THIS THURSDAY, September 12th we welcome Kelly Hightower to Cellar Cat where she will be pouring for us SEVEN of her delicious wines from Eastern Washington!
We first encountered the delicious HIGHTOWER wines a year ago (including their second label: Murray - a Syrah so jammy delicious that we commonly sell out of it when it is available) and are thrilled to have Kelly come all this way to show off her gorgeous Washington wines.
This is a drop-in tasting from 4:30 - 6:30, $20 per person for one ounce pours of all seven RED wines. If, like Cellar Cat man Jim you MUST begin a tasting with white wine come in early enough to enjoy a glass of something light and cool before diving in to these buxom beauties.
ThE $20 per person fee is waived for those purchasing at least two of the Hightower wines OR for those with paid--for tickets to our evening jazz performance (starting at 7 p.m.) with Tim Lerch & Wayne Bliss.
Come hither. Make an evening of it!!
We first encountered the delicious HIGHTOWER wines a year ago (including their second label: Murray - a Syrah so jammy delicious that we commonly sell out of it when it is available) and are thrilled to have Kelly come all this way to show off her gorgeous Washington wines.
This is a drop-in tasting from 4:30 - 6:30, $20 per person for one ounce pours of all seven RED wines. If, like Cellar Cat man Jim you MUST begin a tasting with white wine come in early enough to enjoy a glass of something light and cool before diving in to these buxom beauties.
ThE $20 per person fee is waived for those purchasing at least two of the Hightower wines OR for those with paid--for tickets to our evening jazz performance (starting at 7 p.m.) with Tim Lerch & Wayne Bliss.
Come hither. Make an evening of it!!
Tim Lerch & Wayne Bliss
Thursday, September 12th 7 - 9 p.m.
Tim Lerch is a world renowned guitarist, educator and Emmy award winning composer. Tim is a member of the legendary Northwest Gypsy Jazz group Pearl Django and popular in duo with Jamie Findlay, Wayne Bliss, and other top drawer Puget Sound artists. Cellar Cat LOVES Tim, his style, his buoyant personality, his seemingly effortless performance.
Wayne Bliss is a very active musician in the greater Seattle area for over 25 years, Wayne is an in-demand bassist and guitarist. Wayne has had the privilege of working with such musical and show business legends as The Four Tops, The Temptations, Frankie Avalon, Fabian, .
Tim and Wayne are Two Cool Cats and we're lucky cats indeed that they take the drive the westside of the water to share their talent and time.
Wayne Bliss is a very active musician in the greater Seattle area for over 25 years, Wayne is an in-demand bassist and guitarist. Wayne has had the privilege of working with such musical and show business legends as The Four Tops, The Temptations, Frankie Avalon, Fabian, .
Tim and Wayne are Two Cool Cats and we're lucky cats indeed that they take the drive the westside of the water to share their talent and time.
THIS Friday, September FRIDAY13th, from 7 - 10 p.m. Bruce brings the TRUMPET, the croon and the swoon to CELLAR CAT to stretch SUMMER out for the month of September! 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!
Something different this Saturday 14th - Live, from Seattle!!!
We are excited to bring to you this fabulous Seattle duo, Angela Petrucci with John Hansen on this swinging Saturday night!
NO COVER, but $20 per person minimum helps pay the rent AND the band. That, along with your generous tips FOR the band traveling over the water on a Saturday night for our listening pleasure.
Angela Petrucci is a trained singer, musician, music educator, performer, and entertainer in the Seattle area. Having formal training in classical voice at SPU and studied vocal jazz under Greta Matassa, Angela now entertains in a variety of different spaces in a variety of different music styles with singing as her main performing art form.
Angela is a versatile singer and performer. She has headlined sold out jazz shows with world class musicians, performs musical theater cabarets with NM Entertainment, and plays in farmers markets on guitar singing country and contemporary tunes.
John Hansen is regarded as one of the most in-demand jazz pianists in the Northwest. A studied and musical ensemble player with a strong melodic vocabulary, John has always been recognizable for a unique personal voice.
His performance history includes such venues as NYC's Birdland, The Jazz Standard, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, DC's John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts, Seattle's Jazz Alley
NO COVER, but $20 per person minimum helps pay the rent AND the band. That, along with your generous tips FOR the band traveling over the water on a Saturday night for our listening pleasure.
Angela Petrucci is a trained singer, musician, music educator, performer, and entertainer in the Seattle area. Having formal training in classical voice at SPU and studied vocal jazz under Greta Matassa, Angela now entertains in a variety of different spaces in a variety of different music styles with singing as her main performing art form.
Angela is a versatile singer and performer. She has headlined sold out jazz shows with world class musicians, performs musical theater cabarets with NM Entertainment, and plays in farmers markets on guitar singing country and contemporary tunes.
John Hansen is regarded as one of the most in-demand jazz pianists in the Northwest. A studied and musical ensemble player with a strong melodic vocabulary, John has always been recognizable for a unique personal voice.
His performance history includes such venues as NYC's Birdland, The Jazz Standard, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, DC's John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts, Seattle's Jazz Alley
Jenny Davis & Jovino Santos Neto RETURN to Cellar Cat!
Sunday, September 15th Jenny Davis,
Jovino Santos Neto & Phil Sparks swing Cellar Cat from 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Composer, bandleader and critically acclaimed jazz vocalist Jenny Davis has shifted the focus of her art to reflect her life as an advocate for change. This aspect of her life’s work cuts deep on, Rearranged (the Yeoman Warders Project), her fourth album as a leader. It is an album in which the art of composition takes center stage, as all but three works featured here have been crafted by Davis.
Inspired by a deep love of jazz, Davis has achieved a “clarity of depth and authority in her writing” (JAZZ TIMES) in nearly 20 years as a musician, recording artist and improvisor.A passionate human rights advocate, she has set to music her original scores inspired by her devotion to promote acceptance of diversity. Pushing the creative edge, her newest album, Rearranged, released under Three Penny Records,features an all-star cast, including multi-Grammy nominated Brazilian pianist, Jovino Santos Neto, award-winning flugelhornist, (mentored by Art Farmer) Dmitri Matheny, NYC’s Sirius String Quartetand the Yeoman Warders Sax Quartet.
Three-time Latin Grammy nominee Jovino Santos Neto, a master pianist, composer and arranger, is among the top Brazilian musicians working today. Currently based in Seattle, Washington, he has throughout his career been closely affiliated with the Brazilian master Hermeto Pascoal. He was an integral part of Pascoal's group from 1977 to1992, where he fine-tuned his artistry, performing around the world and co-producing several legendary records.
Jovino’s personal style is a creative blend of energetic grooves, deep harmonies, telepathic improvisation, lyrical melodies and great ensemble playing, always inspired and informed by the colorful richness of Brazilian music. His compositions include samba, choro, baião, xote, forró, marcha and many more styles, rooted in centuries-old musical tradition while pointing to new and adventurous harmonic languages.
Jovino Santos Neto & Phil Sparks swing Cellar Cat from 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Composer, bandleader and critically acclaimed jazz vocalist Jenny Davis has shifted the focus of her art to reflect her life as an advocate for change. This aspect of her life’s work cuts deep on, Rearranged (the Yeoman Warders Project), her fourth album as a leader. It is an album in which the art of composition takes center stage, as all but three works featured here have been crafted by Davis.
Inspired by a deep love of jazz, Davis has achieved a “clarity of depth and authority in her writing” (JAZZ TIMES) in nearly 20 years as a musician, recording artist and improvisor.A passionate human rights advocate, she has set to music her original scores inspired by her devotion to promote acceptance of diversity. Pushing the creative edge, her newest album, Rearranged, released under Three Penny Records,features an all-star cast, including multi-Grammy nominated Brazilian pianist, Jovino Santos Neto, award-winning flugelhornist, (mentored by Art Farmer) Dmitri Matheny, NYC’s Sirius String Quartetand the Yeoman Warders Sax Quartet.
Three-time Latin Grammy nominee Jovino Santos Neto, a master pianist, composer and arranger, is among the top Brazilian musicians working today. Currently based in Seattle, Washington, he has throughout his career been closely affiliated with the Brazilian master Hermeto Pascoal. He was an integral part of Pascoal's group from 1977 to1992, where he fine-tuned his artistry, performing around the world and co-producing several legendary records.
Jovino’s personal style is a creative blend of energetic grooves, deep harmonies, telepathic improvisation, lyrical melodies and great ensemble playing, always inspired and informed by the colorful richness of Brazilian music. His compositions include samba, choro, baião, xote, forró, marcha and many more styles, rooted in centuries-old musical tradition while pointing to new and adventurous harmonic languages.
Native Seattlite, pianist, composer, author, multiple award-winner Bill Anschel comes to Cellar Cat in creative collaborative duet with marvelous Gail Pettis. Nimble-fingered Bill is a sought-out Puget Sound area sideman, known for his intuitive attention to detail, musicality and finesse. Admired as an egalitarian band leader and masterful composer - his name well-known to anyone listening to Jazz24 or KNKX, his fluid and memborable original compositions in constant radio and online rotation - Bill is a large part of making Seattle's growing jazz scene THE scene in west coast jazz.
Gail Pettis is a remarkably original song stylist who does not bring to mind Billie or Ella or Sarah or any other vocalist, past or present. In jazz, she found an ideal outlet for expressing herself as an individual. “It feels like I’ve been looking for this all my life,” she explains. “Jazz invites you to be yourself, and that really appeals to me. You’re not required to sound like anyone else nor do you ever have to sing a song the same way twice. Jazz only asks that you live in the moment. That is tremendously freeing.” Seattle’s Earshot Jazz magazine named Gail “2007 Northwest Vocalist of the Year,” and her debut CD, May I Come In?, issued that year by Origin/OA2 Records, received a warm reception by XM Satellite Radio and Music Choice Television, stations across the United States and also in Germany and Portugal.
Gail Pettis is a remarkably original song stylist who does not bring to mind Billie or Ella or Sarah or any other vocalist, past or present. In jazz, she found an ideal outlet for expressing herself as an individual. “It feels like I’ve been looking for this all my life,” she explains. “Jazz invites you to be yourself, and that really appeals to me. You’re not required to sound like anyone else nor do you ever have to sing a song the same way twice. Jazz only asks that you live in the moment. That is tremendously freeing.” Seattle’s Earshot Jazz magazine named Gail “2007 Northwest Vocalist of the Year,” and her debut CD, May I Come In?, issued that year by Origin/OA2 Records, received a warm reception by XM Satellite Radio and Music Choice Television, stations across the United States and also in Germany and Portugal.
Saturday, September 21st - 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. September & Beyond.
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.
Thursday 12th - 7 - 9 Tim Lerch & Wayne Bliss $20
Saturday 14th - 7 - 10 p.m. Angela Petrucci duo - no cover/ $20 per person minimum
Sunday 15th - 6:30 - 9 p.m. Jovino Neto Santos & Jenny Davis $20
Thursday 19th - 7 - 9 p.m. Gail Pettis & Bill Anschell $20
Sunday 22nd - 6:30 - 9 p.m. Tim Lerch & Chris Bickley Trio $20
Thursday 26th - 7 - 9 p.m. Ranger & the "Re-Arrangers"! $20
Saturday 28th - 7 - 10 p.m. Jonas Myers, piano man no cover/$20 per person minimum
Sunday 29th - 6:30 - 9 p.m. Greta Matassa Quartet $20
October
Bruce Cosacchi every Friday 7 - 10 p.m.
James Murray First & Third Saturdays 7 - 10 p.m.
Thursday 3rd - 7 - 9 p.m. Tim Lerch & Wayne Bliss $20
Sunday 6th - 6:30 - 9 p.m. Francesco Crosara & Ben Thomas $20
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 7 - 9 p.m. Jean Lenke does HALLOWEEN!! $20
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.
Thursday 12th - 7 - 9 Tim Lerch & Wayne Bliss $20
Saturday 14th - 7 - 10 p.m. Angela Petrucci duo - no cover/ $20 per person minimum
Sunday 15th - 6:30 - 9 p.m. Jovino Neto Santos & Jenny Davis $20
Thursday 19th - 7 - 9 p.m. Gail Pettis & Bill Anschell $20
Sunday 22nd - 6:30 - 9 p.m. Tim Lerch & Chris Bickley Trio $20
Thursday 26th - 7 - 9 p.m. Ranger & the "Re-Arrangers"! $20
Saturday 28th - 7 - 10 p.m. Jonas Myers, piano man no cover/$20 per person minimum
Sunday 29th - 6:30 - 9 p.m. Greta Matassa Quartet $20
October
Bruce Cosacchi every Friday 7 - 10 p.m.
James Murray First & Third Saturdays 7 - 10 p.m.
Thursday 3rd - 7 - 9 p.m. Tim Lerch & Wayne Bliss $20
Sunday 6th - 6:30 - 9 p.m. Francesco Crosara & Ben Thomas $20
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 7 - 9 p.m. Jean Lenke does HALLOWEEN!! $20
Saturday, September 28th JONAS MYERS RETURNS to Cellar Cat after his many adventures.
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. Growing up, he played bass and sang in a family band. Later, as a pianist in Seattle's Garfield High School Jazz Ensemble, he 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. Growing up, he played bass and sang in a family band. Later, as a pianist in Seattle's Garfield High School Jazz Ensemble, he 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/