Wines of Washington - About Us

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Please join us select Friday nights from 7-10pm with hosts Clif & Nelda Swiggett for our new

'Jazz at The Tasting Room' Music Series.

Past Shows:

April 25th with Kate Olson

Clif & Nelda are thrilled to feature the extraordinary musicality of saxophonist, composer, and band leader Kate Olson. Kate’s a creative tour de force who’s been helping shape Seattle’s music scene since her arrival in 2010. She was recently named Earshot’s Instrumentalist of the year for 2025. Buckle up for a night of great music!

BIO: Kate Olson is an improvising saxophonist and music educator based in Seattle, WA. Since moving to Seattle in 2010, she has done her best to infiltrate the local, regional and international improvised music scenes. She can be heard performing with her own projects KO SOLO and KO ENSEMBLE, and as a collaborator with the Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble and Electric Circus (led by Wayne Horvitz), Birch Pereira and the Gin Joints, Battlestar Kalakala (formerly West Seattle Soul/the Pulsations), and with such Seattle staples as cabaret producers Can Can Presents and Verlaine & McCann. Kate has a BA in Music (Jazz Emphasis) from the University of Wyoming and an MM in Improvisation from the University of Michigan, and is currently on the jazz faculty at Pacific Lutheran University and University of Puget Sound.

The Wines of Washington Tasting Room is an inviting old-world lounge serving wine, sparkling wine, cocktails, freshly-baked pies and seelct bites. Convenient $8 parking after 5pm in the Pike Place Market Garage at 1901 Western Ave. Take the elevator from the garage up to the market and walk one block to Post Alley.