Meet The Bournés

The Bournés (bor-nayz) are a music group consisting of five sisters, three brothers, and their mother. Said to have the “voices of angels,” this family of singers/songwriters, musicians, and arrangers has been performing together for many years all over Chicagoland and the Midwest. Their signature sound of soothing melodies and warm harmonies has captivated audiences and they hope to reach all who hear them with their message of love, Faith and the importance of family.

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"It's also celebratory — and never more forcefully than here, with the addition of nine onstage gospel singers, Chicago's Bourne Family. The power and passion of their two introductory hymns, and later their singing along with the usual recorded score, positively galvanized audience and dancers alike, especially when Ailey-inflected gravity turned to Ailey-inflected joy. When the 15 dancers bounded offstage and into the aisles, and the singers came to the lip of the stage, the theater caught fire." 

by Laura Molzahn
CHICAGO TRIBUNE | JUN 12, 2016

"The first thing you should know about the Bourne family is that it is comprised of a remarkable mother and her eight adult children, all of whom possess glorious voices that, when joined in unison, create one of the most beautiful, multi-layered sounds imaginable. ...Their a cappella renditions of “Total Praise” and the hymn “Softly and Tenderly” were so other-worldly it was hard to believe the singers were not on a meticulously mastered recording, or being beamed down to Earth from some higher place."

by Hedy Weiss
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES | NOV 15, 2017

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