“the finest blues harp player in the pacific northwest”—the Seattle Times

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

Featured act on the Main stage at the 2023 waterfront festival

KIM FIELD AND THE PERFECT GENTLEMEN is an all-star roots-music group based in Portand, Oregon. Fronted by harmonica player and vocalist Kim Field, the band includes Vyasa Dodson (guitar and vocals), Whit Draper (guitar and vocals), Denny Bixby (bass, keyboards, and vocals), and Jimi Bott (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, the Chicago Blues Festival, the Tampa Bay Blues Festival, Canada’s Tremblant Blues Festival, the Lucerne Blues Festival, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, and on the Legendary Blues Cruise. They have played with 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, Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, Mary Chapin Carpenter, the Righteous Brothers, Walter Horton, Big Mama Thornton, Curtis Salgado, the Proven Ones, the Drifters, Suzy Bogguss, and the Coasters.

Individually, the members of the Perfect Gentlemen have been honored by the Cascade Blues Association with a total of nearly 30 Muddy Awards for their instrumental prowess and their recordings. Drummer Jimi Bott and guitarist Whit Draper have both been inducted in the Cascade Blues Association’s Hall of Fame. Bott was the winner of the 2015 Blues Music Award for best blues drummer and has won 12 Cascade Blues Association Muddy Award for best drummer, an award that is now named after him.

With their international reputations as true blues stars, Kim Field and the Perfect Gentleman established themselves as as one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier r&b acts.

To book Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen,
please contact:

kimfield2@hotmail.com