Mitch Kashmar Kevin Selfe & the Tornadoes

Mitch Kashmar (pictured) has shared the stage with some of the most influential blues musicians including John Lee Hooker, Big Joe Turner, Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson, Lowell Fulson, Jimmy Witherspoon, Pee Wee Crayton, and many others. His band Pontiax has backed up many legendary blues musicians such as Albert Collins, Charlie Musselwhite, Luther Tucker, Pinetop Perkins, William Clarke, and Kim Wilson. Most recently, he plays harp for the band War.
KEVIN Selfe is a Highway 99 favorite. He learned to… Show more play the guitar at a relatively late age while studying at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. After graduating Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Meteorology in 1995, Selfe felt like there was something missing, and joined the regionally popular Fat Daddy Band based out of his hometown of Roanoke, Va. During his tenure with them, the Fat Daddy Band won the Charlotte Blues Society's 2001 Talent Competition and was a finalist at the Blues Foundation's 2002 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN, thus being named one of the top 6 unsigned blues bands in the world.
In 2005, Kevin decided it was time to go out on his own and formed his own group, Kevin Selfe and The Tornadoes. The band quickly became known as one of the tightest and most energetic blues outfits around, backing such legends as Eddie "The Chief" Clearwater and Carey Bell on what became Mr. Bell's final performance.
In 2007, Kevin relocated to Portland and formed a West Coast version of the Tornadoes. In just 3-4 years, Kevin and the band have been nominated for 22 Cascade Blues Association Muddy Awards. The band was also nominated for a 2011 Portland Music Award for Outstanding Achievement in Blues. In early 2011, the band welcomed legendary blues drummer and 12-time Blues Music Award nominee Jimi Bott (The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Mannish Boys, Rod Piazza, Mark Hummel) as the newest Tornado.
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