KIM FIELD AND THE PERFECT GENTLEMEN

“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), 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, 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 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 a total of 39 Muddy Awards for their instrumental prowess and their recordings. Bassist/keyboardist Albert Reda, drummer Jeffrey Strawbridge, and guitarist 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 as one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier r&b acts.

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

kimfield2@hotmail.com