Jimmy Gaudreau is currently performing regularly with John Starling and Carolina Star, the Country Gentlemen Reunion Band, songwriters Robin & Linda Williams as a part of their Fine Group, in a duo with Moondi Klein, former Chesapeake lead singer.

Jimmy has long been regarded as one of the top bluegrass performers in the world. Since getting the call in 1969 to move to the Washington, DC area from his native Rhode Island and join the legendary Country Gentlemen, he has performed with a veritable Who's Who of bluegrass bands and earned a reputation as a mandolin maverick with a sound and a style all his own.

In addition to two stints with the Country Gentlemen, Jimmy has also performed with JD Crowe and the New South, with The Tony Rice Unit (for 9 years), and with his own bands Country Store, Spectrum (with Bela Fleck), Chesapeake, and Auldridge, Bennett & Gaudreau.

In 2005, Jimmy was inducted into the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America's "Hall of Greats" and featured in a Mandolin Magazine cover story.

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"For a guy who picked up the mandolin quite casually, thinking of himself as a guitarist for the longest time, Jimmy Gaudreau has accomplished giant things with the little instrument. Although many of his credentials point quite rightly to an interest in progressive bluegrass, he has also trilled his way in and out of many classic traditional bluegrass outfits, including one of the best, the Country Gentlemen."
-Eugene Chadbourn, All Music Guide

"As a picker and singer, he is simply one of the best. Jimmy's playing is always clean and precise, seemingly without error. And his singing...again, always precise. He is a master at blending and has proven it again and again with numerous great lead singers."
- Gene Johnson of Diamond Rio

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