Rachel and The JellyCats

Rachel & the JellyCats popped onto the Virginia scene in 2018. This high-energy sextet has established itself with stellar lives shows, a professional attitude, and good old-fashioned hard work. With influences ranging from Ruthie Foster and Nina Simone to Bill Withers and Amy Winehouse, the band draws from the last 100 years of American music. Led by Rachel Micheletti, the band prides itself on its humble yet complex musicianship and comradery.

There’s an honesty to the band’s performance and it comes across as they love what they do. Micheletti is all sass and seduction one moment which turns into purrs and growls, then whispers and wails the next. Her voice is a flexible instrument comprised of sugar and grit, with raw power retaining a sweet innocence that compliment’s the band’s versatile style and prowess. Rachel & the JellyCats are purveyors of good times and good music, bringing together the old and the new for something completely original.