Carrie Rambo

Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025
Swing Dance & Birthday Cake!
with the Swizzle Chicks
Shabu Studios
4:30pm - 6:30pm
6055 NE Glisan Street
Portland, OR
$15 - $10 Dance Shoes Please!

Arrivederci Wine & Jazz
* with the Swizzle Chicks, on Sat. Jan 31, 2026 from 7pm-9pm
Reservations: Arrivederci Wine & Jazz

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Arrivederci Wine & Jazz on Sat. Nov 1, 2025!
I’m singing with my sisters-in-swing, the Swizzle Chicks, on Sat. Nov 1 from 7pm-9pm
Reservations: Arrivederci Wine & Jazz

Wilf’s
* with the SWIZZLE CHICKS
Sat. June 7, 2025
7pm - 9:30pm
at Union Station
800 NW Sixth Avenue
Portland OR 97209

Valenswing Dance at Tango Beretín on Sat. Feb 15!
Join me and the Swizzle Chicks: Come out and cut a rug with your sweetie-pie.
2:00pm - 5:00pm (doors open 1:30pm)
6305 SE Foster Road, Portland, OR 97206
Cover: $15, tickets available at the door.
This is an all-swing dance, but you can sit and listen if you want to…

Arrivederci Wine & Jazz on Sat. Jan 18!
ONCE AGAIN I’ll be singing with my sisters-in-swing, the Swizzle Chicks, on Sat. January 18 from 7pm-9pm
This is our first gig of the new year 2025, and I’m looking forward to it.
Reservations: Arrivederci Wine & Jazz

Arrivederci Wine & Jazz is next!
I’m singing with the Swizzle Chicks Saturday, June 22, 2024 from 7pm - 9pm. Make your reservation at arrivederciwg@aol.com or call 503-659-1143. Kick back and indulge in some food/wine/live music and fun. Check out Arrivederci Wine & Jazz for more info.

Road Trip!!!
I’m singing with My Girls—Beth and Stephanie—this week when the Swizzle Chicks play the Lake Chelan Wine & Jazz Festival, in Chelan, WA. Looking forward to a couple gigs, hearing some other great bands and enjoying the outdoors. Bring on summer—can’t wait! We’re at Succession Wines on Fri. May 19 from 5pm-6:30pm, and at Siren Song Vineyard Estate and Winery on Sat. May 20 from 5pm-6:30pm. We have some more shows booked through the year too…

Next appearance is at Wilf’s on Fri. November 4, 2022 with the Swizzle Chicks. You know you want to come on down and hear us! 7pm-9:30pm, make your reservations for the bar area asap: 503-223-0070.

I had a wonderful time at Arrivederci Wine Bar on Sept. 16, 2022 with the Swizzle Chicks and BBD3! Thank you BBD3 and Arrivederci!

October 2021: Sang with my girls, the Swizzle Chicks, along with our band the Piping Hot Toddies, for the Historic Trust’s (Vancouver, WA) annual fundraiser. We played some classic Andrews Sisters tunes—what a blast! Thanks Historic Trust. :)

June 2021: Clubs, restaurants and live-music venues are slowly beginning to open up for audiences…I’m looking forward to gigging again.

December 2020: There isn’t a whole lot of live music happening during this time of the Covid 19 pandemic. Stay safe, wear your mask when you’re out and about, and Happy Holidays!

August 2020: I’ve been making some music with the Swizzle Chicks, outdoors and masked. Practicing, having fun and trying to keep the music and singing going despite social distancing. It can be done—it just takes a little creativity and diligence.

July 2020: The pandemic is here. I focus on being GRATEFUL for having a place to practice, internet access, friends and family. With gigs few and far between, the practice room is a friend indeed. 

August 2019: The real thing:  Veronica Swift. O. M. G. WHAT a jazz singer, and so young. Just wow.

June 2019: The Pranksters Big Band invited me and singer Mitzi Zilka to fill in on vocals for fun and fabulous vocalist Claudia Knauer (on vacation) on a dance gig at The Ballroom Dance Co. in Tigard, Ore. I had a super fun time singing and watching the dancers! Thank you, Pranksters!

Feb. 2019: Just a shout-out to some of my favorite jazz singers of today:  Sophie Milman, Rebecca Hardiman, Karla Harris.

January 2018: I sang at the wildest private holiday party ever last month. There were contortionists, floating swan rides, a casino, a tarot-card reader, a burlesque dancer, a magician, a cigar bar, and rooms where the guests needed a password just to enter and receive their special concoction. Of course there was a band, two piano players and two singers. And a boxing match. And valet parking. And I really can’t go into the rest…

May 15: Going into the studio today to record a couple songs.

Mar. 6: Spring Equinox in two weeks. What more can I say?

Nov. 23: More studio recording coming up in December…  :)

Sept. 14: Going in to the studio this month to record.  :)

July 25: Sat in last night at O’Connor’s Annex during a celebration of Carl Smith:  his 81st birthday and a band leader of The Natural Gas Company for 50 years. So many Portland musicians have come up playing in this 14-piece band. I was privileged to sing in it, backing up Carlee Smith for the last five or six gigs Carl booked. What a great night in a club filled with a great vibe, a rockin’ band and wonderful musicians, friends and family of Carl’s. Here’s to you Carl!

March 6: I had the opportunity to coach with a native-Portuguese speaker a few weeks ago, who helped me with text pronunciation of some Antonio Carlos Jobim tunes. Fantastic!

Feb. 8:  Found a cool piece by Earl Zindars; and thanks to his daughter Helene for sending me a copy of the original chart written in his hand. Zindars was a jazz and classical composer, and frequently collaborated with Bill Evans.