Summer Festival Concert: Joe Bourne

The Library’s 2023 Summer Festival Concerts are sponsored by the Friends of the Coronado Library and by the Hotel Del Coronado. Concerts take place every other Friday from June 16-August 25. Doors open 15 minutes prior to each performance.

Closing out our Summer Festival is vocalist Joe Bourne presenting "Great Gentlemen of Swing, Blues, and Pop." The repertoire will be a range of music from Lou Rawls, Frank Sinatra and Friends, Al Jarreau, Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Perry Como, Louis Armstrong, and a taste of Motown.

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Bourne was inspired by many of the big names of Jazz and popular music that toured the Boston area. Whether it's a swinging rendition of the fun song "Goody Goody," Oscar Brown's philosophical "Dat Dere," Errol Garner's romantic ballad "Misty" or his special tribute to the great Nat King Cole, Bourne always captures the audience with his own style, warm mellifluous jazz baritone voice, and dynamic showmanship. Bourne has shared the stage with Natalie Cole, Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Dionne Warwick and several other jazz and popular music greats.

Over the years Bourne has received several prestigious awards such as The Diamond of the Year award presented by The Bund Botschafter Ohne Grenzen, and the Kunstler des Jahres (Artist of the Year award), both for top-class entertainment in Germany. He has also been honored with the Silver Orpheus in Bulgaria and the Jimmy Kennedy award in Ireland, both for his special presentation of Gershwin's "Summertime."

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