During quarantine, the power couple Jenny Littlefield and Birch Pereira (of the Gin Joints) joined forces on ukuleles to make their brand new duo Jenny & Birch.

Birch Pereira has been a freelance gigging upright and electric bassist in Seattle now for two decades. He is just as comfortable playing jazz in a hotel lobby to touring with a hip hop artist or a singer songwriter. Although he grew up a classical cellist, after a year in orchestra at the University of Washingon, he switched over to the jazz department and never looked back. Studying under the department's direction of pianist Marc Seales and bassist Doug Miller and Phil Sparks, he graduated with a B.A. in Jazz Bass Performance in 2005. He has also worked hard to gig and study with experts outside of academia including Latin Jazz bassist Joe Santiago, Senegalese percussionist Ibrahama Camara and Seattle's funkiest guitarist Thaddeus Turner.

In 2015 he started the band Birch Pereira & the Gin Joints where he stepped out to the front of the stage as a the lead singer/bassist, playing originals and new arrangements of covers in a 1950s americana/soul/jazz style. The band has toured the US & Canada playing jazz, blues and folk festivals and concerts and received glowing reviews in No Depression, Jazziz, Pop Matters and more. As a freelance musician, highlights in his gigging history include multiple performances at the Sasquatch and Bumbershoot festivals with Theoretics, tours across the US with 60s retro band Prom Queen and singer songwriter Jenn Grinels, European and Canadian adventures with the celtic pop band The Paperboys and performing with jazz trumpeter Bria Skonberg and the amazing Cajun soul artist Marc Broussard.