August 1st, 2015

Doors open: 5pm
Event begins: 7pm
Event Website: www.thebirk.com

Nominated for the 2014 Muddy Award for Best R&B Act, The Ken DeRouchie Band is a 9-piece Soul/R&B/Funk/Blues band featuring a crisp horn section and a tight rhythm section and amazing 5 part vocal harmonies, performing original music written by Ken DeRouchie as well as a few handpicked twists on classic tunes. Influences for the band include everything from Aretha Franklin, Lenny Kravitz, Ray Charles, Steely Dan, Jill Scott and B.B. King to name a few.

KDB has had the pleasure of opening for such national acts as Cheap Trick, Blood Sweat and Tears, Curtis Salgado, Robben Ford, The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Mary Wilson and the Supremes, and Leftover Salmon.

Top players from the Northwest join DeRouchie, including Northwest Soul legend LaRhonda Steele, Arietta Ward (DooDoo Funk All-stars), long-time KDB bassist Rob Busey (Al Perez Band, Robbie Laws), virtuoso guitarist Jeff Knudson (Lisa Mann and Her Really Good Band), keyboardist Alex “Popcorn” Milsted (Roseland Hunters, DooDoo Funk Allstars), drummer Chris Lay (Tim Snider Band, Mother Bunch), Clayton Daffron on tenor sax and David Chachere on trumpet (Groundation).

Hailed as “…one of the best live bands in the Northwest” (Andre Hagestadt, The Oregonian and Statesman Journal), The Ken DeRouchie Band has played hundreds of live shows since 1998 — from small club appearances to festivals and concert halls; live radio and TV appearances.

Steve Pringle of KINK FM Portland (Rock Station of the Year 2012) writes “Ken and his band bring it each and every night. Horns that moan and wail, guitars that grind and soothe and a rhythm section tighter than a frogs ass. The KDB has a story to tell, pull up a chair.”

Tickets Non Refundable