“If they act too hip, you know they can’t play s#*t. ”
Jay Galvan Heneghan (Vocals, Piano) Jay is a classically-trained pianist who comes to the performance of jazz and blues as a fan and as a student. Growing up in a large, musical family, Jay’s early musical influences were a grab bag of styles and genres. In crafting the sound of the Jay Heneghan Project, she draws on all of these influences to create a playlist that listeners from a wide range of tastes and generations can enjoy, sing along to, dance to, and be moved by. Jay is also the lead singer of JJ and the Hooligans, a Santa Fe-based dance band consistently named among the city’s best.
A native of New Mexico, Jay is a local business owner, the founder and director of a charitable foundation, the mother of three children, and the wife of a very supportive and patient man.
Tom Rheam (Trumpet, Piano) Tom’s father played trumpet and his mother played the piano. Tom plays both, sometimes at the same time. Hailing from Pennsylvania, he came to Santa Fe after a long, illustrious career playing with some of music’s great icons including the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Buddy Rich, Ray Charles, various Tommy Dorsey bands, Aretha Franklin, the Four Seasons, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, the Temptations, the Tops, Smokey Robinson, Leo Maes…
You get the picture. Tom’s legit.
Tom is also an original member of JJ and the Hooligans - he’s the King Hooligan.
The Band - The depth and quality of the Santa Fe music scene is a well-kept secret outside the boundaries of our historic capitol city, and the Jay Heneghan Project draws on many of its musicians to round out its sound with the addition of standing bass, percussion, horns, harmonica, sax — whatever the tune demands.