Cellar Cat is thrilled to announce the Cellar Cat return of Cellar Cat's Artist-in-residence 2026 Jonas Myers' jazz trio THE CASCADIANS!
Jonas Myers
Jonas Myers is a musician, writer, teacher, and bicycle wanderer. In his twenties, he gained recognition on the Seattle scene as a jazz pianist, composer, singer-songwriter, and bandleader. For several years he was a regular performer at the Canlis piano bar. His group the Walking Hat Trio played a KNKX Studio Session in 2019. In 2020, he released his debut album, Driving Home, featuring a nine-piece ensemble. In 2021, he created a livestream variety show on YouTube called North City Almanac. Later that year he moved to Oregon to enroll in the MFA fiction program at OSU, which he completed in 2023. He now lives in Port Townsend, where he teaches and performs music, writes short stories, and tours the region by bicycle. Learn more at jonasmyers.com.
Ray Larsen
Trumpeter and composer Ray Larsen is noted for his spirited sound, which critics have called “life-enhancing” (Seattle Times) and “truly original” (All About Jazz).
Ray has released seven albums of his work, featuring an affinity for musical storytelling across a wide range of styles. His compositions include several long-form pieces for large chamber ensembles (New Studies Of The Starry Skies, How Glass Is Made, 3 Poems By Emily Dickinson, When Mountains Blow) and a treasury of tuneful sketches for trumpet trio Tyrant Lizard, free jazz collective The Sky Is A Suitcase, duo project Josh & Ray (with accordionist Josh Hou), and various other small group settings.
His recent collection Songs To Fill The Air (Slow & Steady Records) introduced a highly-orchestrated approach to songcraft and earned a place in Bandcamp’s Best Jazz Albums of 2020 for its “view into possible futures”. In 2021, he began releasing Air in America, an ongoing album-by-installments featuring elaborate collages of audio recordings from the digital archives of the U.S. Library of Congress.
Ray has performed extensively as a member of Chemical Clock, the Harry James Orchestra, Wayne Horvitz's Electric Circus, The Royal Room Collective, Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder, The Westerlies, The Dip, and many more. He teaches on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA.
Ray is a Thane Trumpets performing artist.
Lucien LaMotte
Lucien is a composer, songwriter, guitarist, and teacher based in the Seattle area. Lucien is a multi-instrumentalist who enjoys creating songs with a kaleidoscope of colors and textures. In live performances Lucien blends solo jazz and classic guitar works along with singer songwriter material, improvisation and live looping. The performances are a dynamic blend of multiple genres and moods that can be sculpted for any setting.
Lucien has performed and recorded music spanning many genres including folk, jazz, rock, country, R&B, and classical music. He has toured the U.S. and Europe with the Joy Mills Band, Silverhands, and as a solo artist. He has worked with the funk ensemble Unknown Jeromes and fusion group 650 Connection, and toured Hawaii with Brother Sun, and has performed with bassist Myron Dove of Carlos Santana, former Doobie Brother saxophonist Danny Hull, and performed as a member of the Afro-Bebop group the Pascal Bokar Band for former Dizzy Gillespie guitarist Pascal Bokar. He has had the privilege of opening for artists such as Lukas Nelson, Chaka Khan, Ziggy Marley, Don Carlos, The Temptations, The Whispers and the O’Jays.
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