Event:

JESSE COOK

  

Date:

Sat, Sep 11th, 2021

Time:

7:30 pm

Description:

“If you had asked me at age 22, I would have said that I would never, never make music for the public,” Jesse Cook says with a laugh.

“I would have told you that the public is much too fickle— they may love you one minute and forget you the next. Well, it turns out I did the thing I said I’d never do, and somehow it’s worked out.”

That’s an understatement. Since launching his career with 1995’s Tempest, Cook has blazed an incredible trail. Along with being a global – guitar virtu oso, he’s honed his skills as a composer, producer, arranger, performer and, more recently, filmmaker and cultural ambassador. More incredibly, he started down many of those paths before he started school. Born in Paris to photographer John Cook and TV producer-director Heather Cook, young Jesse also lived in Barcelona, where he picked up an interest in flamenco as a toddler. At six, after his parentsdivorced and he moved to Toronto with his mother, the prodigy attended the prestigious Eli Kassner Guitar Academy. During summers with his father in Arles, he soaked up more flamenco from neighbour Nicolas Reyes, leader of the world- renowned Gipsy Kings. Despite this, Cook originally and surprisingly planned to attend art school, until a girlfriend set him straight: “She said, ‘Your music is really good; your art, not so much.’ So I changed tracks. I’m so glad I did.” After attending the Royal Conservatory, York University and Berklee College, a comfortable career as a composer seemed in the cards…..

Venue:

Kelowna Community Theatre

Address:
1375 Water St, Kelowna, V1Y 9R3

Cost:

$45

For more info:

Kelowna Community Theatre