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Thomas "Big Hat" Fields
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From Church Point, Louisiana, ex-bronco buster, calf roper, and bull rider, Thomas "Big Hat" Fields, has come a long way to spread the gospel of zydeco. Fields first picked up an accordion ten short years ago and hasn’t put it down since. Fields and the Footstompers have packed clubs and festivals in their home state of Louisiana, toured the US from Seattle to New York and back again, embarked on a successful European tour and released six albums sharing their unique Creole heritage through music. In 2003, Thomas Fields was crowned a "Living Legend" by his childhood hometown of Rayne, Louisiana, and he continues to establish himself in the national Zydeco circuit.
In the present, he leads a versatile, slick, show band with an enormous play list which is equally at home in Las Vegas, on Bourbon Street, or at Capitol Hill soirees. Having thus acquired his hard-earned reputation as a straight-shooting, no nonsense, professional artist, he can attract and surround himself with la crème of the South Louisiana musicians, including the legendary Rodney Bernard on rubboard/vocals and ex-Clifton Chenier drummer, Joseph Edwards. Rounding out his supporting cast is guitar wizard Marty Christian, and bassist and more than capable chanteuse, Geneva, Thomas’s wife and ever faithful band partner of many years. Thomas’ show includes a variety of material because indeed it is a gumbo, chock full of musical genres which are bound to please anyone’s palate, including soul, blues, Cajun, Swamp Pop, and of course Zydeco!
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