Live music at the Winery: The South Seas

The South Seas plays jazz standards, Hawaiian instrumentals, Western swing, and mid-century pop — the music that lived somewhere between 1935 and 1965, filtered through a Pacific Northwest sensibility. At the center of the sound are a 1958 Fender Stringmaster lap steel and a vintage Fender Rhodes, surrounded by archtop guitar and bass. The result is warm, intimate, and entirely conversation-friendly — the kind of atmospheric music that sets a room rather than competes with it. Think Martin Denny. Think Arthur Lyman. Think the kind of sound that makes a cocktail hour feel like a place worth being.