Returning this summer to Bronson Park is Thursdays in the Park Live! featuring the hotest jazz groups on the stage today!  Jazz enthusiasts and new audiences alike will love this evening.

Come at 5:01 p.m. and enjoy an Art Hops in the beer garden.  Proceeds from beer sales benefit the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo.

July 20 - Joe McBride Trio

Not even blindness can stop vocalist/keyboardist Joe McBride. His status as one of today’s most popular contemporary jazz musicians is rooted in a solid foundation of talent. Born in 1963 in Fulton, Missouri, he began playing piano at age four and started singing in high school. As a teenager, McBride contracted a degenerative eye disease and eventually lost his eyesight, but his passion for music was never impaired.  

With his acoustic trio McBride features songs originally written and recorded by a range of pop luminaries, including Gnarls Barkley, Coldplay, John Mayer, Seal and Jill Scott, and reinterprets them via straightahead jazz arrangements.

Thursdays in the Park Live! is a collaboration of the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, Fontana and City of Kalamazoo Parks & Recreation.  This series is generously supported by the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation and Metro Toyota.