Hot Club of Port Townsend

Jessica Logan - Guitar and Vocals

Jessica, a resident of the Port Townsend, has been a part of the PNW acoustic music scene for decades. She has played about everywhere in the region, and many places on the West coast. She has contributed her compositions and performance to numerous recording projects, including three albums with her former well-known band, Zazou (which currently has over 100,000 followers on streaming platforms around the world). Jessica specializes in Hot Club Style Jazz and sung French Cafe Music, though she will pick up a fiddle from time to time. In fact, it was while living in France as a young person that she found her passion for the music she plays today. She spent many years primarily as a bass player, but decided that thing is too damned heavy and shifted her focus to guitar.

Bobbi Nikles - Violin and Vocals

Port Townsend based fiddler, Bobbi Nikles performs in a wide array of bands: oldtime, Irish, Jazz combos, and contradance bands., such as swing jazz with Jessica Logan, Ryan Hoffman & Tracy Grisman, Irish music with Black Brothers Band and Old time music and songs with Jere Canote. She has been a contributor to Strings magazine.. She founded and directed the acclaimed day camp for young fiddlers-Fiddlekids- in Berkeley, CA. She taught at YEA (youth enrichment in the arts) in Port Townsend and at Centrum’s Festival of American Fiddletunes.

www.bobbinikles.com

Tracy Grisman - Bass and Vocals
"I am a life long learner, teacher, painter, sketcher, musician, community practitioner and activist, I've learned that to be an artist means to live life creatively. Tracy often combines her love of art and music in her paintings.

tracybigelowgrismanart.com/

Jennie Kong-Meyer Sometimes guitarist with HC of PT
Jennie Kong Mayer is a Seattle-based guitarist. She studied Jazz Manouche with Ryan Hoffman at Jazz Night School in 2016-2018. She is a founder of the all-female group Lulu Swing Band and plays often with Whidbey-based Cafe Impromptu. She has performed in many venues in Seattle, including Djangofest NW. She also leads her own swing band, the Jumpin Jennies, who perform regularly at Swing It Seattle.