Little instrument, big voice.

Bilee — short for Jubilee — Grace is a genderless, ukulele-shredding folk artist based in Port Townsend who is bringing their talents to Finnriver Farm & Cidery at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24.

A singer-songwriter, street corner busker, and tree-hugger to the core, Grace combines years of classical voice training with creativity and compassion.

“I’ve performed pretty much my whole life,” Grace said. “I did choir as a kid. I actually traveled for it competitively in middle and high school.”

Then the ukulele made its way in through ancestral origins.

“My great-grandfather lived in Hawaii for a long time. After he passed on, his uke was just sitting gathering dust in a cupboard at my grandmother’s. I found it, and I sat down and immediately learned three songs,” Grace said.

Despite the ease with the instrument, singing is still where the musician feels most solid.

“I consider myself more of a singer than an instrumentalist,” Grace said. “But what I love about the uke is that it’s just so easy. I was able to immediately start singing with it as soon as I started playing with it, which is the most important part for me.”

Grace has been busking around town since before graduating from Port Townsend High School in 2018. After aging into the bar scene, they started taking the stage at the Uptown Pub’s open mic on a regular basis as well as at weekly jam sessions with other local artists.

“I’ve really enjoyed how welcoming everyone is. I think there’s often this competitive energy and I feel like there’s not a lot of that, and I really love the performance environment of Port Townsend and the kind of community turn out that we get,” Grace said.

While Grace said there will be lots of covers at the show, they’re also hoping to record an album this year and will be bringing original material from that project to the show at Finnriver.

Those original songs are deeply personal, yet leave space to relate.

“I think ambiguity is something I really like and lean into,” Grace said.

“I write as a way to process a lot, so I also write about trauma and challenges,” they added.

That strong sense of the lyrical is at the heart of their original work.

“I definitely consider myself a poet. I would have considered myself a poet long before I considered myself a songwriter,” Grace said.

Finnriver Farm & Cidery is located at 124 Center Road in Chimacum and there is a $3 to $5 cover charge collected 30 minutes before the music starts.

To learn more about Bilee Grace and their music, go to bileegracemusic.com.