Join us for some music on the terrace featuring Ellie & Kiley Ruwe Shaw!

In the event of bad weather or bad air quality, the concert will be held in the local history area on the 3^rd floor.

The mother-daughter duo of Ellie and Kiley Ruwe Shaw have been performing together for 10 years. Together they bring to life the Swingin’ Sounds of the 30’s and the 40’s. A natural musician, Ellie (backed up by her mom on guitar) was winning National and State Fiddle Contests by the age of 8 and branched off into jazz violin a few years later. Her love of movie musicals found her singing along with Doris Day and Frank Sinatra and it wasn’t long before she was adding her own voice to the genre. Kiley and Ellie made the decision to shift gears from the steady downbeats of contest fiddle music and move over to Swing tunes where Ellie could improv around the beat.

Their set list includes standards from the jazz era that are given new life as Ellie swings them with her own interpretation. Always a crowd favorite, Ellie’s vintage vocals and scat have been influenced by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and countless other great voices from the era. Taking her cue from instrumentalists like Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong and Lester Young, she brings jazz violin to a new height. The mother-daughter rapport is alive in every performance as they take the audience on a musical journey with animated conversation. Kiley’s rhythm guitar and Ellie’s sultry voice and swingin’ jazz violin make each performance a unique and unforgettable experience.

Ellie’s Kiley and Ellie are also members of the Idaho Singer Songwriters Association and are proud to keep the American Songbook alive with new standards written in the 1940s genre with Kiley contributing lyrics and Ellie providing the melodies. To hear their sound visit www.ellieshawjazz.com