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8 years ago

Jazz & Blue Festival Boquete

8 years ago

http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/festival-2016.html

Dear friends of the Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival,
we know you've been anxiously waiting for news about next year's festival. It will be the 10th anniversary of the Biggest Little Jazz&Blues Festival in the world, and you'll be in for a fantastic treat!
BJBF 2015 was a sold-out success...it was our best festival ever, and ever since, the festival crew under the new leadership of producer Mr. John Wolff has been working diligently to even surpass this success with the upcoming 10th anniversary edition in February 2016!

The new festival leadership
Since Hans has retired from running the festival after 4 successful years Mr. John Wolff, a "Panagringo" (Panamanian born in the US), blues aficionado and avid supporter of the Boquete festival has volunteered to take over. He is joined by our large group of volunteers plus associate producers Shakura S'Aida and Deanna Bogart, who, after having played the 2015 festival, fell so much in love with it that they wanted to get more deeply involved, and thus became associate producers! Now, how neat is that??? And, of course, Hans will also be lending a helping hand....

Our beautiful festival venue is
the Greek-style amphitheatre at Valle Escondido which is an upscale residential resort. This is surely the most beautiful venue for a festival you can find in Panama -our audiences and musicians just loved it... and you will, too!

A stellar line-up..................
How can you take your love of music to new heights? Start off at an elevation of 3,000 feet above sea level and then let some of the world’s top performers set you soaring. The Boquete Jazz and Blues Festival is the ideal launching pad to send you into orbit. The sky is by no means limited in the open-air amphitheater of the luxurious Valle Escondido resort, located in a picturesque mountain community in the Republic of Panama, not far from the Costa Rican border. Each yearly festival has reached a new crescendo, and the lineup for the tenth annual event, scheduled from 26 through 28 February 2016, promises to raise the bar even higher.
To build on past successes, festival producer John Wolff enlisted two of the peak performers from 2015 as associate producers —Shakura S’Aida, a rising international jazz and blues diva now living in Canada, and Deanna Bogart, a widely acclaimed pianist, saxophonist, singer and songwriter from the United States. The two women will be joined in an all-star band by the renowned Danish harmonica performer and manufacturer Lee Oskar, a founding member of the group War. Past performance levels also warranted a 2016 encore for two acts from the Panamanian music scene — the 18-piece Rigoberto Coba Big Brass Band and John Carney’s smooth Latin jazz band Gato Maximo. In addition, percussionist Charlie Marre, who sat in with some of the 2015 performances, will continue filling in the beat next year.
The impressive lineup also features five first-time acts. Representing the jazz genre will be Spyro Grya, bassist Scott Ambush, saxophone virtuoso Marshall Keys, and spectacular jazz trumpeter Alexander Brown. Three towering bluesmen will round out the billboard: Curtis Salgado, a singer and harmonic player who has performed with the likes of Santana, the Steve Miller Band, the Robert Cray Band and Roomful of Blues and who won the Blues Foundation’s B.B. King Entertainer of the Year for 2013; guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Tommy Castro, recipient of the same award for 2010; and Ronnie Baker Brooks, son of the legendary Lonnie Brooks and a preeminent torchbearer for the Chicago blues-guitar sound.
Shakura and Deanna were extremely helpful with putting together this dream-come-true line-up for 2016. Can you imagine the incredible joy you'll be able to experience with all these great guys jamming together?

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