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Mo' great footage of the 2015 festival -check it out!

2/28/2015

Here's the final set of wonderful festival videos by John Hampton, including a collection of the Hilites of BJBF 2015. All of his incredible work of BJBF festival videos of the last four years have been published on John's youtube channel NotSereyus Productions. Enjoy!

Rigoberto Coba Big Band (9:09)
http://youtu.be/EhNhBUWSwbE

Andy Egert (3:45)
http://youtu.be/Moa4qDBrXY8

Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials (15:03)
http://youtu.be/7aqwkOwie1U

Malamanya (13:49)
http://youtu.be/X6iyU51dvr8

AIB students perform "Grease" (7:24)
http://youtu.be/yZpVnKI2qnw

HiLites - BJBF 2015 (5:36)
http://youtu.be/CeP0jjIsftg

A great reminder of a wonderful time...

2/21/2015

If you were at Valle Escondido two weeks ago you saw some of the best performances in the history of the BJBF.
Here's an hours worth of YouTube reminders from the four headliners.
Each one is about 15 minutes long.
Videos by John Hampton.

John Carney&Gato Maximo (12:46)       http://youtu.be/p4blZcOdGAA

Deanna Bogart Band (21:22)                  http://youtu.be/yTbNwNnQhTg

Yelba & Latin Fire (15:16)                     http://youtu.be/QYd0-FXRXgU

Shakura S'Aida (13:14)                     http://youtu.be/bS4Q89ki9lU

Five new videos of the fabulous 2015 festival published!

2/15/2015

Our official festival videographer John Hampton just published five new videos of shows and jam sessions of the fabulous 2015 Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival on youtube. Click on the links below to enjoy the incredible energy of the 'Biggest little Festival' on the planet!

Art of Music                          http://youtu.be/MIY8X4tNY2c

Panamonte Garden Party    http://youtu.be/l1kU8aiuQcc

Edgar Sings Hendrix            http://youtu.be/MHSnTnwkjdE

Evening at BCP                     http://youtu.be/T5Xho5mot7o

Jam at Baru                            http://youtu.be/trvpcFSa8xU

BJBF2015 is continuing at the Albrrok Mall Tryp hotel in Panama City on Feb 12, 2015

2/11/2015

After the show is before the show: When the Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival will close it doors on Sunday, February 8 the music will not be over yet: As an extension to the festival our official festival hotel, the Albrook Mall Tryp hotel is sponsoring a great double bill show with festival bands Yelba&Latin Fire and John Carney&Gato Maximo on February 12 from 7p until 11:30pm. DJ John Wolff (who is also one of our festival organizers) will open the show at 7pm.
Admission is $15 only, with free admission for BJBF Fedora Club members!

A great opportunity for festival visitors to enjoy even more of the superb music that they had the pleasure of hearing at the Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival. If you have the chance to stay in Panama for a couple of days after the festival, don't miss this show!
The special discount room rates for festival visitors are valid until Feb 12! Special discounts for Fedora Club members are valid until the end of 2015!

A cool shortie of shows on Sunday, Feb 8, by John Hampton

2/10/2015

The BJBF photography and videography is working hard on churning out pics and videos of our fantastic festival as quickly as possible. Here's a series of short clips of the Sunday shows by John Hampton. Stay tuned and check back in frequently for more superb footage of the Biggest little Festival on the planet!

Just in...first footage of BJBF 2015...enjoy!

2/9/2015

Clips of Arian Zenua, Deanna Bogart, Yelba&Latin Fire and Shakura S'Aida performing in a sizzling hot shows on Saturday afternoon at the 2015 Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival!

Blocks off for the 2015 Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival!

2/5/2015

What a fantastic start of the 2015 Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival!!!

A great VIP Gala party at the Valle del Rio Hotel on Tuesday,

yesterday our colorful street parade followed by wonderful garden party at the Panamonte hotel with the sizzling hot Malamanya band,

followed by

an incredible jam session at Mike's Global Grill with Andy Egert&band, Leon Blue, John Carney, Deanne Bogart, Shakura S'Aida, Malamanya and the Adam Reach band sharing the stage….

It hardly can get better than that! Sorry for all who missed it! But there's more - much more to come!

Our photographers have worked hard behind the scenes to get the footage of the events out as fast as possible.

Here are some links to their photos. Click, enjoy and share!

Bernie Verhoeven – Fedora Club party:

https://plus.google.com/photos/101292903775064144272/albums/6112348812753650977

Steven Philipps - parade:

http://ststeven.zenfolio.com/p27752533

Robert Brauns – parade:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/26705204@N04/sets/72157650639123372/

Mark Heyer – parade & garden party:

https://picasaweb.google.com/111402995672060871942/BoqueteJazzAndBluesFestivalParadeAndParty

Almost there!

2/1/2015

We’re almost there!
-      Only 2 days to go to the opening of the ‚Art of Music’ exhibition with live music at the Boquete library on Tuesday at 3pm, and the Gala VIP Fedora Club party at the Valle del Rio hotel at 6pm.

-      Have you got your costumes ready?
Only 3 days to go to our traditional New Orleans style street parade on Wednesday, Feb 4...this year promising to be even more colorful with nearly 150 Fedora Club members parading with hats and parasols in the New Orleans colors purple, yellow and green.

-      Don’t miss the ensuing garden party at the Panamonte hotel where the Malamanya band will take you on a
   musical journey to Cuba, and a great silent auction with exquisite offerings will be waiting for you! Don't
       forget to bring enough cash to take part in the auction!

And that’s just the start!
Five nightly jam sessions at Mike's Global Grill, Baru restaurant, Sabor restaurant and The Rock, a free concert in the park, and a special show with two masters of their trade at the BCP on Thursday (sold out!), an open mic session at Baru restaurant on Friday afternoon, and then the weekend with 8 shows of top-of-the notch international Latin Jazz and Blues bands will keep Boquete rockin’ n’ rolling for almost a full week!

       The double bill show at the BCP on Thursday is completely sold out!
       The Fedora Club is almost sold out. Only 4 of 150 memberships left!
       The amphitheater at Valle Escondido will also sell out!
       Only 100 seats left with one week to go!
       If you don’t want to miss the Biggest Little Festival on the planet with best of musical entertainment ever
       presented in Chiriqui and Panama you GOT TO BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!

Tickets are available online at www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/tickets.html or locally at Mailboxes ETC.        and the next Tuesday market in Boquete, and MAYBE at the door if there will be any left.

Mo' great footage of the 2015 festival -check it out!

A great reminder of a wonderful time...

Five new videos of the fabulous 2015 festival published!

BJBF2015 is continuing at the Albrrok Mall Tryp hotel in Panama City on Feb 12, 2015

A cool shortie of shows on Sunday, Feb 8, by John Hampton

Just in...first footage of BJBF 2015...enjoy!

Blocks off for the 2015 Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival!

Almost there!

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