Brent Burns
Brent Burns is making a return to The Throw Back Shell Beach Party this year. He last appeared in 2019 and we are thrilled that he is back again. He will be performing Saturday, September 19th from 11am until 2pm.Brent Burns was born in Oklahoma, raised in Arizona and arrived in Gulf Shores, Alabama in 1972. This son of the desert has become the poet laureate of the beach. In 2006, Burns was named “Official Music Ambassador of the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau.” In 2008, Burns won three awards in the first ever Trop Rock Music Awards. Burns won “Entertainer of the Year,” “CD of the Year (for “Ragtops and Flip Flops”)” and a special WAVE award for his charitable work. 2010 brought more Trop Rock Music awards, CD and Song of the Year for “I’ve Got A Beach in My Backyard” and Songwriter of the Year. In 2011 he added two more awards – Songwriter of the Year and Entertainer of the Year! 2012 brought awards for CD and Song of the Year for “Don’t Come Knockin’ If The Tiki Hut’s Rockin’.”
More Awards
2021 Trop Rock Music Association Lifetime Achievement, Album of the Year (“My Jukebox On The Beach”)
2011 Trop Rock Music Association Entertainer and Songwriter of the Year
2010 Trop Rock Music Association Songwriter of the Year, Album and Song of the Year (“I’ve Got A BEACH In My Backyard”)
2008 Trop Rock Music Association Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year (“Ragtops and Flip Flops”)
2007 Military Writers Society of America Award for CD of the Year(“Ragtops and Flip Flops”)
2006 Named the “Official Music Ambassador of the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau”
2004 DAV National Service Foundation Commendation