Music that connects us.
Community that sustains us.
Photo by Emily Barrows Photography
our story & mission
Rolling Bay Music Club (RBMC) is a nonprofit performing arts organization rooted in a deep belief that music has the power to bring people together, spark discovery, and strengthen the communities we share.
We champion musicians who create original work, hosting intimate, one-of-a-kind concerts that bring a diverse range of artists to Bainbridge Island. Our events are more than performances. They are invitations to connect, explore, and belong.
We are committed to building a model where artists are paid fairly, venues are financially sustainable, and music is genuinely accessible to all, including our LGBTQIA+ community and Allies. We believe the challenges facing live music today are solvable, and we intend to solve them together, creatively, and from the ground up.
Our long-term vision is ambitious: community-owned, community-run spaces that are financially sustainable and serve as gathering places for music, makers, food, learning, and life. Places that belong to all of us.
Photo by Emily Barrows Photography
identity — who we are
Jackie Costigan
Founder, Rolling Bay Music Club
Jackie Costigan has spent her life bringing people together to build things that matter. For forty years that meant real estate, overseeing more than $2 billion in projects across the Pacific Northwest, founding her own firm, and eventually serving as Senior Vice President at Unico Properties. When she retired in 2020 and moved to Bainbridge Island, she found herself drawn to something she had always loved and never made enough room for: live music, and the community it creates.
Rolling Bay Music Club is her answer to that pull, and to a set of problems she couldn't stop thinking about. Artists not earning a livable wage. Venues that can't make the economics work. A community full of music lovers with no central place to find each other. Jackie recognized the pattern. It's the same misalignment she spent a career untangling for clients. Now she's ready to untangle it for the place she calls home.
RBMC launches its first season in 2026, six intimate concerts, musicians Jackie personally believes in, on an island she loves. The vision is bigger than that, but it starts here: with great music, fair pay, and a genuine invitation for the community to be part of building something lasting.
Jackie lives on Bainbridge Island with her wife Sally and their Labrador, Dash. When she's not working on RBMC, you'll find her on the pickleball court, in the kitchen, or somewhere new in the world.