kim field and the perfect gentlemen

“The finest blues harmonica player in the Pacific Northwest”—the Seattle Times

Winner of the Cascade Blues Association Muddy Award for “Best New Act”

KIM FIELD AND THE PERFECT GENTLEMEN is an all-star roots-music group based in Portland, Oregon. Fronted by harmonica player and vocalist Kim Field, the band includes Whit Draper (guitar and vocals), Vyasa Dodson (guitar and vocals), Albert Reda (bass, keyboards, and vocals), and Jeffrey Strawbridge (drums).

The group’s members have performed throughout the United States and Europe at such showcases as Portland’s Waterfront Blues Festival, the San Francisco Blues Festival, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, the Blues Brews and BBQ Festival, the Cincinnati Blues Festival, the Moulin Blues Festival in the Netherlands, Germany’s Galdorf Blues Festival, and the Blues Now festival in Switzerland. They have shared stages with such rhythm and blues legends as Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Gregg Allman, James Cotton, Otis Rush, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, the Righteous Brothers, Walter Horton, Big Mama Thornton, Curtis Salgado, the Drifters, and the Coasters.

Individually, the members of the Perfect Gentlemen have been honored by the Cascade Blues Association with over twenty Muddy Awards. Albert Reda, Jeffrey Strawbridge, and Whit Draper have all been inducted in the Cascade Blues Association’s Hall of Fame.

With their international reputations as true blues stars, Kim Field and the Perfect Gentleman have quickly established themselves as one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier live R&B acts.

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