Clint Eastwood will be presented with the inaugural Cultural Leadership Award on Sunday as part of the 67th annual Monterey Jazz Festival.
Eastwood has been a longtime Monterey Jazz Festival board member and he will be given the award by his longtime friend Freeman.
The presentation will be followed by “Eastwood Symphonic,” a musical project led by Clint’s son American jazz musician and composer Kyle Eastwood.
The project features his quartet along with an orchestral ensemble performing the movie themes from his dad’s movies like Gran Torino, Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers and Bridges of Madison County.
Clint Eastwood’s roots extend far on the Monterey Peninsula.
Clint will be attending the Monterey Jazz Festival this Sunday, 29th, where he will be honored with the prestigious Cultural Leadership Award. A dedicated board member since 1992, he will be presented the award by friend, Morgan Freem an. Son Kyle will be performing his concert,… pic.twitter.com/nVKvkK4Dh1
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Clint moved to the Central Coast when he was drafted for the Korean War. He trained at Fort Ord which is also where he got his start in acting.
As the story goes, Eastwood was spotted while stationed at Fort Ord by crewmembers of Universal Studios. He was given a screen test in Los Angeles that reportedly went poorly, but he would attend drama lessons until he got his first on-screen role in 1955.
After finding success on screen, Clint purchased a home on the Central Coast and called it home.
On April 8, 1986, Eastwood was sworn in as Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea. Eastwood had campaigned on and successfully overturned a law that outlawed ice cream cones in the town. In addition, he created public restrooms, constructed a library annex and saw the creation of a tourists’ parking lot.
The Capitola Wharf officially reopened Wednesday after being damaged by powerful winter storms last year.
“We have been through a really hard time as a city, having had this kind of terrible storm that created the damage on the water to begin with,” said Capitola Mayor Kristen Brown. But to see how the community has come together has come together. How we all work together, you know, in benefit of our community.”
A grand opening ceremony featured music, food trucks and entertainment to celebrate the newly rebuilt wharf.
According to officials, the new wharf is sturdier compared to the previous one.
It is wider and stands on fiberglass, making the structure more durable.