This is HUGE step forward for the Biggest little Festival!
The Panamanian National Institute of Culture (El Instituto Nacional de Cultura) INAC, has declared the Boquete Jazz and Blues Festival a "National Cultural Event" and the US embassy is sending The Deputy Chief of Mission, Kevin O’Reilly, to Boquete during the festival to express the Embassy’s support of the event.
This is really fantastic news! The importance of this development for the future of the festival cannot be estimated highly enough!
It took 11 years of hard work to get there but now, with the support of Panamanian government agencies like the Tourism ministry and the National Cultural Institute as well as support from the US Embassy (with hopefully other embassies to follow) the tireless work of the organizers and hundreds of volunteers over the years is bearing lasting fruit.
Jazz has already become well known in Panama with the prestigious Panama Jazz Festival in Panama City but now the Blues has also found a lasting home here!
Thanks to everybody who contributed to this success, the volunteers, the sponsors, the organizers and the festival visitors, and special kudos to our present festival director John Wolff who finally achieved this most important breakthrough!
This is really fantastic news! The importance of this development for the future of the festival cannot be estimated highly enough!
It took 11 years of hard work to get there but now, with the support of Panamanian government agencies like the Tourism ministry and the National Cultural Institute as well as support from the US Embassy (with hopefully other embassies to follow) the tireless work of the organizers and hundreds of volunteers over the years is bearing lasting fruit.
Jazz has already become well known in Panama with the prestigious Panama Jazz Festival in Panama City but now the Blues has also found a lasting home here!
Thanks to everybody who contributed to this success, the volunteers, the sponsors, the organizers and the festival visitors, and special kudos to our present festival director John Wolff who finally achieved this most important breakthrough!
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