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All the videos and photos of BJBF2104 published!

3/20/2014

 
Another incredible festival in the Chiriqui highlands of Panama is history...and WOW!....what a great event this was, better than ever before!

Get the feeling of what the Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival is all about by viewing the slide show, videos and photos on our gallery page...smiling faces, beautiful places....people dancing and having great fun....what a great community this is!


See below the HiLites of the 2014 festival....

All video footag provided by John Hampton



Don't miss out on next year's festival!

BJBF 2014 line up announced!

10/24/2013

 
Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival announces 2014 lineup

Some 85 music enthusiasts gathered at the Hotel Oasis in Boquete for a

“Champagne Coming out Celebration” to announce the new lineup for the 2014 festival.

The weekend will begin with the traditional Mardi Gras style parade thru town led

by members of Rigoberto Coba’s Big Band playing traditional Dixieland jazz. The

parade will end at the landmark Panamonte Hotel and Spa where the Latin jazz band

“Sin Ensemble” will entertain the opening garden party.

The festival starts to heat up Thursday night with a double bill at the Boquete

Community Theater featuring blues/jazz historian/comedian Rev. Billy C. Wirtz followed

by Jazz singer/pianist Jamie Lynn Fletcher backed by Boquete’s Fantasy Jazz.

Later Thursday night the action will move to Mike’s Global Grill and one of three

All Star Jams. Mike’s will feature Swiss Bluesman Andy Egert backed by Boquete blues

band- B3.

Friday will be a day of load in and set up with youth music clinics at various

locations TBA.  The Friday All Star Jam will be at the upscale Rock Restaurant

with Rev. Billy C. Wirtz opening for Chuck Beattie again backed up by B3 (the hardest

working band in town.)

Saturday the festival moves to the beautiful Valle Escondido Amphitheater. Jamie

Lynn Fletcher, again backed by local jazz greats Fantasy Jazz will kick off the days

show at noon.

The festivals blues power will gain momentum with B3 playing behind bluesmen

Chuck Beattie and Andy Egert.  The blues heavy lineup for Saturday will be topped by

Canada’s favorite- Downchild Blues Band featuring several 40 year veterans of the band

as well as Latin players from Costa Rica.

Downchild will wind up their BJBF appearances by hosting the All Star Jam later that

night.  This will be a great opportunity for local players and foreign blues stars to mix it

up.

Sunday we will return to Valle Escondido with jazz locals Sin Ensemble

opening.  Returning to the BJBF stage with her own band after several years as featured

singer for Carlos Ubarte will be the Panamanian Jazz Diva Idania Dowman and the

Emotions.  Idania has promised us a smoking, danceable set of hot Latin Jazz.

Louisiana’s Chris Thomas King, who you may recognize as Tommy Johnson

from the film “O Brother Where Art Thou”, will appear with his three piece band.

King has carved himself out a place in the movie industry writing musical scores and

will be promoting his newest recording “Antebellum Postcards. Look for a wide variety

of styles from this multi talented artist.

The festival will wind up (but not down) with the amazing Rigoberto Coba

Big Band.  This 18 pc. band will have everyone up dancing as they embrace many styles

of jazz from Latin to swing to bebop. 

As of this writing there is still an unfilled spot on Saturdays schedule as we

continue to seek out the ultimate dynamic Latin Jazz Band.

For ticketing and other information visit http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/tickets.html

Finally, the rum has arrived!

1/25/2013

 
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All you jazzin' and bluesin' babies out there: Rejoice! The Panamonte Brands rum has finally arrived! Panamonte Brands LLC who are based in Florida, USA are the principal sponsor of the Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival with a huge donation of 120 bottles of Panama Red 108 overproof, and 40 bottles of Panamonte XXV Reserva Preciosa which are made in Panama but are only available for sale in the US and Canada. The Panama Red 108 overproof sells for $25 a bottle there, and the Panamonte Reserva Preciosa sells for $400 a bottle!
Now it's available in Panama for the first time!!!
It took a long time to get the customs import clearance but it finally arrived in Boquete today! We are now going to distribute it to all our sponsors who signed up for our 100+ program as well as to the bronze, silver and gold sponsors who have been eagerly waiting for the delivery of this delicious benefit! We'll raffle some of the bottles off at our fundraiser parties as well as during the festival.
Now, let's paint the town RED!

TV feature about the Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival together with the Panama Jazz Festival.

6/19/2012

 
Panamanian TV and Radio personality Noris Miranda authored and presented this TV feature about the two great music festivals in Panama, the Panama City Jazz festival in January 2012 and the Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival in March 2012. Footage of BJBF starts at 12:49...enjoy!

What a great festival it was....the best ever music festival in Boquete!

3/17/2012

 
The 2012 Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival was a great success! A wonderful venue,  a great variety of world-class music, excellent wheather ( it was like a miracle that the first raindrops started falling at the very end of the last show on Sunday, March 4, and on Monday it was raining cats&dogs!)...we started the festival with Boquete's first-ever Mardi Gras parade led by the Smoking Time Jazz Club, a street band flown in From New Orleans...you have never seen so many smiling faces (many of them painted), so much radiant joy in the streets of Boquete! The following show at the garden party at the Panamonte hotel with jambalaya and original New Orleans hurricanes was loved by all, it was a most colorful assembly of fantastic costumes amid the flowers and trees of the Panamonte's beautiful garden, and the Smoking Time Jazz Club's show was fantastic!
And it continued this way all 4 days of the festival....free concerts in the park, great shows at the amphitheatre, packed jam sessions at local restaurants at night....the Boquete valley of the rainbows was resonating with music  for 4 days all over the place....Please check out the photos and videos on our gallery page
This was definitely the best music festival Boquete and Chiriqui have ever seen.....and we'll do it again next year!

Boquete goes New Orleans! Full festival program has been published!

2/12/2012

 
_The BJBF festival program has been published!

Hola, Jazz&Blues aficionados in Boquete and beyond. Check out the full program of the upcoming Jazz&Blues festival in the new edition of the festival newsletter by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/i74p5 An incredible amount of great musical events is coming your way:

7 bands, 4 solo artists, 50 musicians altogether
A Mardi Gras parade in the streets of Boquete
A traditional New Orleans Jazz garden party at the Panamonte
2 open-air days with 9 shows at the Valle Escondido amphitheater
3 after party jams

C'mon baby let the good times roll!

Everybody's invited to take part in the parade! Dress up, dress down, put on something fancy, attach colorful ribbons to your umbrellas, dance along Boquete main street…there are no limits to your imagination! Dress up your vehicles, too…cars, bikes, wheelchairs, inline skates, ATV's, vintage cars, whatever…..

We'll have extensive media coverage of the event. Several TV-networks, radio stations, newspaper reporters will be present. Panama and the world will be watching, so get ready and show them what a Boquete party is like!
Further details about the parade will be published soon.

Don't forget to get your festival tickets in time!
The more the word gets out the faster they go. Max. capacity of the festival venue is 500, so don't wait too long!

Seating capacity for the very special Betty Bryant show at the BCP on Thursday evening, March 1st is limited to 110! You don't wanna miss this once-in-a lifetime show in Boquete! Get your tickets for just $13 NOW!

Tickets for Boquete's most loved and most favorite wine-tasting party have just come on sale!
A great way to support the festival while having fun: Once again the festival activities will get a kick-start with our famous wine-tasting fundraiser at Hacienda Los Molinos beautiful Casa del Risco by the canyon on February 25 from 5 - 8pm. A plentiful supply of 10 great wines provided by Felipe Motta/David, delicious appetizers prepared by La Casa del Risco's great Chef, and live music by Boquete's one and only B3, the Boquete Blues Band are a winning formula that's hard to beat!
Win a prize at the raffle, bid for beautiful jewelry in our silent auction, and dance 'til your head spins and your feet and knees give away….Tickets are just $18.

Festival tickets and tickets for the Betty Bryant show are available at Mailboxes  ETC., at the Tuesday market in Boquete, at the Valle Escondido hotel, and at the door (if still available by then), and they can also be booked online through our website: http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/tickets.html

Wine tasting tickets are available at Mailboxes ETC., the Tuesday market and by phone at 6519-7876 for will-call.

Boquete goes New Orleans! Laissez les bon temps roulez!

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