Tracy Ferrara

Tracy Ferrara leads The Hot McGandhis. She began her career as a teenager, playing clarinet in the New Jersey State Orchestra at 17, and went on to graduate from both the Juilliard School and Princeton University. In the 1990s she was a founding member of Swamp Mama Johnson, the Northwest indie band, and she also helped found Cascadia '10, Soul Senate, Shady Bottom and Superkali.

Over the years she has played everything from classical to funk, blues to Afrobeat, Latin to reggae, on stages from Lincoln Center in New York to folk festivals in the far reaches of the Northwest Territories. She is a well-respected session player as well as a highly regarded teacher.