“If they act too hip, you know they can’t play s#*t. ”
Jay Galvan Heneghan 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. As she crafts the sound of the Jay Heneghan Project, her goal is to draw 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.
Prior to forming the Jay Heneghan Project, Jay was a founding member of JJ and the Hooligans, a Santa Fe-based dance band consistenly named among the city’s best.
A native of New Mexico, Jay is also a local business owner, the mother of three children, and the wife of a very supportive and patient man.
Tom Rheam hails from Pennsylvania and came to Santa Fe after a long, illustrious career playing with some of music’s great icons. His father played trumpet and his mother played the piano. He plays both (sometimes at the same time). He left college to go on the road with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra and has played for Glenn Miller Orchestra, Buddy Rich, Ray Charles, various Tommy Dorsey bands, Aretha Franklin, the Four Seasons, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Temptations, Tops, Smokey Robinson, Leo Maes…
You get the picture.
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, and harmonica, depending what the song list insists upon.
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Have a listen to some sounds captured at shows throughout Santa Fe.
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