Cascadia Groove

Guitar/Composer; Gary has composed original works for the City of Seattle, U.S. Forestry Service, Vulcan Inc., Cessna Aircraft, Fairlight Inc., Spectral/Euphonix Inc., and many other corporate promotional videos, as well as compositions for live theater, T.V., and commercial radio; He was a session musician in Los Angeles for many years and former member of the San Diego Symphony (violin); Gary is also the guitarist (and founding member) for Kalimba/the spirit of Earth Wind & Fire and the guitarist for the Brothers Hammond/Tribute to Motown.

Bass; Studied with Jim Harnett, Gary Peacock, Chuck Israels, Chuck Deardorff. Lover of all things jazz and world-beat, Paul was the Principal/Composer with the very popular band Rivertalk (a 30+ year established world-beat group from the Skagit Valley); Paul also performs with Dogtail Swing (a Skagit Valley Django Reinhardt group.

Tnr Sax / Lead Vocalist; Good things come in small packages, indeed.  With her open presentation, powerful vocals, and tenor sax work, Tracy is the “spark-plug” and front for the group. Tracy started on clarinet at 10 and is grateful to her middle school band director, Gary Marsh, who converted her to tenor saxophone.  In school, music classes took up all of her electives… jazz band before school, concert band, marching band and concert choir.  Tracy sang alto in the vocal jazz ensemble at UW, but mostly identified as a marching band girl (and always will be) GO HUSKIES!  Tracy performed with the Whatcom Sound Jazz Singers in 2008/09 and then found her first vocal frontman experience in 2014/15.  She happily still gets to be a marching band girl with the Beet Root Street Band in Bellingham, but now… for the first time… she is thrilled to combine her vocal abilities and tenor sax with Cascadia Groove - the perfect fit!

Tnr Sax, Bari Sax, Backing vocals and pebble in your shoe. Keith is a lifelong devotee of the tenor sax having been a happy band nerd since junior high school. He was a member of the first jazz orchestra formed at the University of Texas at Arlington in 1976 on the baritone sax chair and was with the band when they were invited to play at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1978 and the Sao Paolo Jazz Festival in Brazil that same year. He has spent the past forty years performing in any and every kind of pop, blues, rock, jazz and wedding combo conceivable.  Keith has been with Cascadia Groove since 2017. He also plays bari sax with The Atown Big Band since its formation in 2013.

Keyboard/Vocals/Composer; Originally from Chicago, Pat holds a degree in music from DePaul University where he studied with Melody Lord, Mary Sauer (Chicago Symphony), Cliff Colnot, and others. He also attended Berklee College of Music and the PNW Film Scoring program. His work includes over 1,000 recording sessions, over 2,000 live performances, and arrangements and work in film, TV, and live theater.