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Pre-sale deadline extended!

11/27/2014

Good news for procrastinators!

The deadline for the sale of discount Jazz&Blues festival tickets has been extended from Nov. 30 to Dec. 10!

Ticket prices will now definitely go up by $10 from $25 to $35 for a one-day ticket, and from $45 to $55 for a weekend pass on December 11 .

Don't procrastinate any longer! Buy your tickets NOW and save $10 per ticket!

There will be no further extension!

Tickets are available at Mailboxes ETC. and at the Tuesday market in Boquete, and online through our website at www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/tickets.html
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Got your tickets yet for the famous BJBF Black&White party???

Gentlemen, you don't need to rent a tux…
Ladies, you don't need wear a $5000 dress and flash your diamonds…
Just throw on something black or white or white&black, bring your dancing shoes, switch into party mood and come and have fun!

Win a Fedora Club membership, a festival pass or other great prizes in our grand raffle!

Admission is only $10 for the classiest party in town. Includes a welcome drink and live Latin/Caribbean/Cuban style music. A buffet-style dinner will be available for $17.50 incl. tax&tip.

Dec. 5 is the day, 6pm-10pm is the time, the beautiful porch of the Valle del Rio hotel is the place.

Don't miss it!!! Tickets are selling fast!

Some tickets are still available at Mailboxes ETC., at the Tuesday market and maybe, maybe at the door….
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Get the full festival package - join the BJBF Fedora Club!

The membership fee of only $160 will get you VIP status with preferred seating and reduced prices for food&beverages at the weekend festival, free access to all 5 jam sessions and the Panamonte garden party, a beautiful Fedora hat and parasol, an invitation to the VIP Fedora Gala party on Tuesday, Feb 3, plus savings of $80 for every stay at the Albrook Mall Tryp hotel in Panama City for the whole year of 2015!

That's a total value of about $300 if you stay just one night at the Tryp hotel!!!

Two thirds of all 150 available memberships have already been sold.

Don't miss your chance to get this incredible deal - join now!!!

Sign up for the Club online via our website http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/fedora-club.html or by dropping cash or a cheque at Mailboxes ETC. or the Tuesday market in Boquete. Don't forget to leave your name and contact info.

Coming to Panama for the first time: Mr. Leon Blue, a true veteran of piano Blues!

11/24/2014

Leon Blue (yes, that's his real name!) may just be the finest blues piano man you've never heard of. Not that he hasn't had more than his share of high profile gigs – lengthy spells with The Ike & Tina Turner Revue, Lowell Fulson, and Albert Collins to name just a few - it's just that he's spent most of his career as a sideman rather than out front in the spotlight. But the company he's kept speaks volumes about his talent, professionalism and versatility as a musician.
Born in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1931, Leon was first inspired to play piano in 1940 after hearing records of the pounding boogie-woogie of Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons, and also early live performances by fellow Texan Charles Brown.
Although he relocated to Las Vegas in the early 1990s because of Albert Collins, he hasn't slowed down bit. He continued to tour regularly with his old friends like Roy Gaines, Sonny Rhodes or Phillip Walker, and is frequently in L.A. for gigs and recording sessions, tickling the ivories or pounding out a boogie as needed. But it wasn't until The Mannish Boys sessions in 2004 that Leon got a chance to show off his 'secret weapon' on record for the very first time - a warm and husky blues voice, that we're sure to hear more of in the future.
Nowadays, at 83 years of age still live and kicking, Leon mostly performs as a headliner either solo or with other musicians.

The Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival is very proud to present this veteran of piano Blues in Panama for the first time. Festival visitors will have the chance to see and hear Mr. Leon Blue perform at least three times: At an intimate show at the small Boquete communal theater BCP on Thursday, Feb 05 at 5pm, at the all star jam starting at 8p at the Baru restaurant that same evening together with Andy Egert and Deanna Bogart, and on the main stage at 1:30pm on Sunday afternoon, Feb 08, sharing the stage with Andy Egert and the Boquete Blues Band.
Mr. Leon Blue is a must to see and hear! Don't miss him!

New video by BJBF2015 headliner Deanna Bogart

11/17/2014

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Check it out and enjoy! A new video by BJBF2105 headliner Deanna Bogart.
Coming to Boquete in February 2015....

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Our famous Black&White fundraiser party is on for Dec. 5, 2014!

11/12/2014

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Time to get dressed up!

Where else do you have the opportunity for a really classy party in Boquete these days?

Come join us for the famous Black&White party of the Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival Foundation at the Valle del Rio hotel on December 5! Enjoy the companionship of your fellow festival supporters, a good glass of wine, a yummy Italian buffet style dinner of the Palador restaurant, and sway your hips to hot Latin/Caribbean/Cuban rhythms brought to you live by professional Cuban musician Alejandro La Orquesta! Win a Fedora Club membership, a festival pass and other great prizes at our Super Raffle! This is going to be the biggest fundraiser for the festival! Come and show your support!

Jazz&Blues fans of Boquete and beyond, we count on you! Without YOU the Boquete Jazz&Blues festival wouldn't be happening!

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Yelba & Latin Fire....Latin Jazz at it's best coming to Boquete!

11/6/2014

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Yelba & Latin Fire- our headliner of the week
Boquete, get ready for Yelba and Latin Fire...they'll surely get everybody on their feet to dance!
Nicaraguan-born Yelba came into this world with a gift for harmonies and a joy for entertaining. She learned to play the guitar by watching her father strumming as he sang Nicaraguan folk tunes to his five children.
Her voice has been described as “the voice of an angel”, which has spilled more than a few tears while she performs her beautiful Spanish Ballads and romantic Jazz repertoire. Then, within the blink of an eye, Yelba can break out in a steamy Salsa or an outrageously fun Disco tune sending her listeners wildly dancing and whirling to the exciting sounds of her VARIETY BAND.
“Yelba heats up the stage with an energetic Latin twist! Nicaraguan-born Houstonian, Yelba Heaton, has an unusual name indeed. “It’s like ‘the heat is on’ — ‘Heat-on,’“ she said with a laugh, but it’s a name to remember. Heaton, known as Yelba to her fans, is going places.”
- By Kim Hogstrom / contributing writer, Here!

The Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival Foundation is proud to present Yelba&Latin Fire in February 2015 with their first - ever show in Panama!

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Pre-sale deadline extended!

Coming to Panama for the first time: Mr. Leon Blue, a true veteran of piano Blues!

New video by BJBF2015 headliner Deanna Bogart

Our famous Black&White fundraiser party is on for Dec. 5, 2014!

Yelba & Latin Fire....Latin Jazz at it's best coming to Boquete!

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