Jonatha Brooke returns to Bend

Published 12:16 am Monday, September 22, 2014

Jonatha BrookeDeborah Feingold / Submitted photo

Tis the season for Central Oregon’s various summer concert series to wrap up and go into hiding until next June or July.

I know what you’re thinking, and I agree: serious bummer.

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But there’s no stopping the passage of time or the changing of the seasons, and on Sunday, the Athletic Club of Bend will put a period on the 2014 Peak Summer Nights, a set of four concerts held outdoors in the club’s courtyard, with folk-pop singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke, plus a couple openers.

Brooke, who has played Bend a few times before, is from Massachusetts. She’s a veteran musician who started out in the ‘80s as part of The Story, which scored a major-label deal, and since then has been pumping out album after album of well-crafted and easygoing songs that wrap little life lessons inside their catchy melodies.

Her most recent release is “My Mother Has Four Noses,” an album and musical. Before that, she released an album called “The Works” that combined previously unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics with her own music, and she co-wrote songs with Katy Perry and Dixie Chicks side project The Courtyard Hounds. Keep up with all her activity at www.jonathabrooke.com.

Her openers are Peter Bradley Adams, a warm and tuneful folk singer who is just a letter away from having three first names, and Christine McKinley, a musician and mechanical engineer who deftly combines her love of physics and song.

Jonatha Brooke, with Peter Bradley Adams and Christine McKinley; 6 p.m. Sunday, doors open 5:30 p.m.; $24, available at Newport Avenue Market (541-382-3940) in Bend. or $64 dinner tickets, available at the venue; Athletic Club of Bend, 61615 Athletic Club Drive; www.peaksummernights.com, 541-385-3062.

— Ben Salmon

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