In his misspent youth Greg toured much of the U.S. in rock groups and earned his Bachelor and Masters Degrees at Western Washington University and the University of Washington. Early in his teaching career, Greg was judged one of “Seattle’s Ten Best Artists” for his one-hit-wonder radio tune “Love Be Kind”.

A past Commodore of the Puget Sound Cruising Club, Greg has more than 20,000 blue-water miles at sea aboard his 32-foot sailboat “ASIA” and has mesmerized the NW sailing community with films and tales of his adventures in the South Pacific (some of them true). A founding member of the TROPICS, Greg sings and plays Saxophone, Flute, Guitar and Keyboard.

                      

Elaine Skeffington spent much of her East-Coast youth performing on voice, piano and flute and was active in dance and theater on any stage she could find.

After pursuing college degrees in Music and Psychology Elaine relocated to the “Left Coast” where the domestic joys of motherhood temporarily stalled her musical ambitions.

Luckily a well timed artistic mid-life crisis has brought her back to music with renewed passion.

In addition to performing with The TROPICS and IVY LANE, Elaine has recently been dabbling in songwriting and occasional appearances on local TV.

Performing as a Trio, the TROPICS have an embarrassing wealth of

“GUITAR-SLINGERS”

During his childhood Craig was influenced by his Mother’s long-term association with Jimmy Durante as the bass player in his “All-Girl Band”.

While a young man Craig worked in Las Vegas as a member of the Ray Conniff Orchestra. During those years “the kid” (as Frank Sinatra dubbed him) played guitar for just about “everybody who’s anybody” in Vegas including Sammy Davis, Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Mel Torme’, Peggy Lee, John Denver, Petula Clark, Jim Messina, Donna Summers, Lou Rawls and toured with Tom Jones and his band. 

Craig has played guitar for top recording artists including Gloria Estefan, Canned Heat and The Moody Blues. His signature lead guitar licks can be heard on classic pop albums by Ambrosia and Pablo Cruise.

Edward Paul Ferguson (aka Edward Paul) has worked as a performer and studio musician for over two decades and has been a member of many Seattle area bands including Aqualvinyl, The Troublemakers, Badboys, Panama, The Elektralights, and the Seattle Pot Luck Orchestra.

He has worked on projects for MTV, the Experience Music Project, and for various film, television, and radio recordings and performances. 

Eddy is equally at home on Guitar, Bass and Vocals. In addition to the TROPICS, he can be seen performing around town with The Michael Powers and Craig Lawrence Bands. For more info about Eddy and his latest CD release “Changes” visit http://www.edwardpaulmusic.com

Dr. Felix Billingsley is a founding member of the TROPICS and was our original guitarist in ‘98.

In 2006 “Frosty” (as he prefers to be called) retired from the University of Washington (and the band) after a legendary stint at the College of Education. Soon thereafter he experienced a “changes in latitudes” episode which involved sailing his 42 foot sailboat, with his wife Patti Goode (also a founding member of the TROPICS) to exotic and WARM Mexico.

As our mentor, spiritual guide and resident tequila expert, Frosty plays a role that no-one else can. We are overjoyed to announce that he has returned to the Northwest on a part-time basis to perform with us when the planets are aligned just right......and the Mexican authorities are otherwise occupied.

Frosty brings back to the TROPICS his trademark R&B influenced brand of rockin’ blues and we’re just happy as the proverbial “clam at high tide” about it!

                                                                                                                     

In addition to the TROPICS, Rico has a successful solo guitar act and performs locally as a member of The Encounters. See his website at: www.ricovmusic.com

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