Pace Trumpet

03/20/2026

Golden Jubilee at Chuckanut Bay Distillery

Sunday June 21st
4-9PM
1309 Cornwall Ave
Bellingham WA

Please join us for an acoustic assembly of rare musical decadence with celebration and salutation marking the 50th birthday for a stranger and friend. Featuring a handful from the region's finest providing your high and happy soundtrack atop the city's newest gorgeous transformative space: The Ballroom at Chuckanut Bay Distillery.

With live performances from:

The Hot Tomatoes
Buddy Mac and His Ten-Gallon Troubadours
Dumpster Joe & The Boys (PDX)
Hot Damn Scandal
Alder Street (EUGENE)

Hosted by Pace Rubadeau

Tickets available via:

tinyurl.com/cbdgoldenjubilee

Early Bird $25 (including processing fees)
March 20th to April 30th

Advance $30 (including processing fees)
May 1st to June 20th

Day of Show $35
(cash/venmo )

21+
Cash bar
ADA accessible

Brilliant handmade keepsake courtesy Minoot Illustration

03/16/2026

Full color dream lineup drops this Friday the 20th at 10AM 🎉

instagram.com/minootillustration

12/15/2025

Last year of my 40s means waxing nostalgic glee for the many dreamy artists and organizations collaborated with over the past decade:

Alder Street
Alishia Joubert
Austin Neverman
Bad Posture Club
Bailey McCully
Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons
B'ham Hop
Birdie Finn Cent
Buddy Mac
Cascade Cody and the Warshington Apples
Cayley Schmid and Aaron Guest
Chuckanut Bay Distillery
C.W. Stoneking
Damian Cade
Dandelion
Dank Zavala
David Donohue
Deanna Fleysher
Dee Dee Chapman
Deklun
Devin Champlin
Downtown Bellingham Partnership
Dream Goats
Dumpster Joe
Emily Freudenberger
Frog & Henry
Ghost
Graham Hughes
Gunhild Carling
Hot Club of Hawthorne
Hot Damn Scandal
Hot House Jazz Band
Inner City Medicine Show
Inspirational Beets
Jacob Miller and the Bridge City Crooners
Jerry Steinhilber Trio
Joe Baker
John Swanke
Jonathan Doyle and Matt Weiner
Joy Pearson
Kali Henson
Karen Kunkel
Karolina Lux
KMRE
Kurt Bello
LipStitch
Louis Ledford and Norah McLaughlin
Lulu Swing Band
Marie, The Band
McKain Lakey
Mostafa
Nuages
Pete Irving
Philip Hoffman
Pink Lady & John Bennett Jazz Band
Pomona Lake
Portland Lindy Society
Portland Rhythm Shakers
Rachel Gauthier and Lynna Hall
Ranger and the "Re-Arrangers"
Rena Priest
Rick & Rita
Robert Lashley
Robert Sarazin Blake
Ruby Flambé
Sierra Ferrell
S**t City Jellyroll Society
Sofie Mae
Steeplechase
Steve Itterly and Jonathan Pitman
Strangely
Swingtown Vipers
Tad Kroening
Tamar Korn
Tevis Hodge Jr.
The Artful Dodgers
The Bayou Opossums
The Best Intentions
The Devillies
The Gallus Brothers
The Hot Tomatoes
The Moving Hats
The Penny Stinkers
The Preacher & The Freight Train
The Problem
The Rose City Banjoliers
The Shadies
The Sweet Goodbyes
The Two Man Gentlemen Band
The Wandering Seas
Three for Silver
Tim Kliphuis and Jimmy Grant
Tuba Skinny
Washington State Penitentiary
Washingtones Records
Zach Bryson

Working on something significant for say June 2026 so please stay tuned and thank you to all of you who have welcomed me in through camaraderie and trumpet pins.

📸 Juliette Machado

11/27/2025

11/19/2025

Musical Miracle at Hotel Leo

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28TH
1224 CORNWALL AVE
7-10PM

Honored to offer a live local soundtrack for kicking off Miracle, Hotel Leo's festive Christmas pop-up bar running November 28th through December 31st. Expect songs and singalongs both nostalgic and new, twinkling lights, over-the-top holiday décor, and classic cocktails with a spirited twist. Gather your friends and sip something merry while soaking in the magic of the season.

Instrumentation for this enchanting opening eve includes Jesse Wolpow (Buddy Mac & His Ten Gallon Troubadour) on upright bass, Nat Lara (The Hot Tomatoes) on rhythm guitar/vocals, Alex Larson Kubiak (The Hot Tomatoes) on clarinet, and Pace Rubadeau on muted trumpet featuring group vocals sure to delight the ears and feet.

Free for all ages
Please tip your server 🥂
Visit thehotelleo.com/dining for complete hours and additional info

10/27/2025

Ten years ago this week arrived in a strange new town without a job or place to live knowing just a few key people from the scene. Here's a handful of ambitious dreams that achieved fruition in the surreal time since:

Bringing a weekly swing dance back to the historic Hotel Leo after starting out as dapper concierge shown the company ballroom first day of training with management asking Any ideas what we could do with this space? as I replied in the affirmative and made it happen with B'ham Hop

Becoming an award-winning Music Coordinator through supporting countless independent players five summers running with the First Friday Busking Program made possible by Team LPJ at Downtown Bellingham Partnership entrusting me with thousands of grant monies paying homage to the artists

Forming Hot House Jazz Band who united feet from the shadows to the spotlight and closing out our ten-piece tenure with vintage adventure offering prohibition-era sounds to folks who need it most those grateful attendees serving short to life sentences at Washington State Penitentiary

Spending six months curating a voice for radio with my own show on KMRE live every Saturday celebrating the bands befriended at home and abroad while acknowledging Portland with a special theme song

Having the honor of producing Bad Posture Club's prodigal return to town with a sold out intimate listening event held in the gorgeous giving ballroom of Chuckanut Bay Distillery

Using connections from collaboration with CBD's empowering powers-that-be to help resurrect a former working speakeasy called The Pastime where mystery and history converge in sensory custom cocktails atmospheric class and live early jazz from hidden door behind Cornwall Ave

Convincing C.W. Stoneking and Gunhild Carling to make unplanned stops in Bellingham town for sharing their rare nostalgic sound on our small local stages deserving of such education when we're more often seen as a scenic drive-thru in lieu of destination

Securing permission from the city to commission top notch muralist Ruckas of Bird Alley lore for hand painting a twenty-five foot trumpet in the parking lot at Girard and D marking sixty-eight days of sunset serenades during early days of pandemic spending time with each other through tune from a distance

Migrating from sales associate to Assistant Manager at Bellingham Wind Works aka the magical musical machine shop on Meridian Street where bosses make me feel seen surrounded by skilled nerds of the highest order teaching me new things each shift despite three decades spent in the industry

Lastly and mostly sitting in with Michael-Paul Gurulé and Nuages at our dear Uisce where I'd serendipitously meet the love of my life after crossing four continents and all fifty states looking for her leading to the greatest story ever told with a parentship we both deserve to hold

Thank you to all of you who've welcomed me in with camaraderie through trumpet pins and cheers to the late great Sir Lucas Hicks who built all of this by encouraging me to move to Bellingham in the first place.

Photo from bartender Jake just before starting Week Four as coveted host of the new Sunday Open Mic at Aslan Depot cheers to where we go from here 🍻

Hat by Champlin
Hoodie by Kit
Trumpet by Callet
Love by Bellingham

10/23/2025

Trail to Fall a favored season nature heard with greater meaning.

10/19/2025

When there's only enough space for a trio can bet on a solid investment with these esteemed friends of the scene. Many thanks to Christian Casolary for the gig and Jessie Bloss for the pic.

10/04/2025

Elated and honored to announce christening an enchanting new stage as coveted Host for the weekly Sunday Open Mic debut at one of Bellingham's classiest rooms of slices and imbibe: Aslan Depot ✨️ Grateful to the Aslan team for taking a chance on me. Tenure kicks off this Sunday the 5th. Sign-ups begin at 6:30PM. Performances run 7-10PM. Contributors get $1 off house brews so come on through as together we prove what community can do.

All genres welcome
Safe and inclusive space
Well behaved doggos allowed on the patio
21+
Please tip your server and listen to musicians 🥂

09/25/2025

Seven years ago had the esteemed honor to hand over the longest running open mic in town to one of our scene's finest: Ivan Sandomire. My own tenure just shy of two had followed in the hallowed footsteps of our dark lord and savior Sir Scot Casey and marked early days in Bellingham as a conduit to community.

Am grateful to Anna and Murphy for granting the first gainful employment as booker bartender farmer's market vendor and coveted host given complete freedom to try new things like learning how to set up a PA after gigging for thirty years or maybe moving the piano over here or banning all further renditions of Wagon Wheel and Hallelujah.

Last night was 's last time navigating the eve which brought out a dreamy and nostalgic soundtrack with something for everyone indeed. Many kind words and stories were shared on his behalf with veterans and newcomers alike gracing the mic. I offer serenade in tribute to this inclusive house of community and kin and cheers to Ivan godspeed my friend 🫡

📹 Joe

09/23/2025

Last night's prohibition-era sound met the most seniors ever witnessed out on the town at a rock club after 8PM as this esteemed crew played songs and singalongs bringing them back to a time when they clapped and danced in a smile down the aisle declaring hear ye hear ye jazz isn't dead it's just living at Shakedown thanks to these heavyweights of the scene for always making a difference be it small or significant ✨️