Or Sept. 6 wine-tasting party at the beautiful Hacienda Los Molinos hotel just outside of Boquete was a huge success! 99 attending supporters of the Boquete Jazz&Blues festival helped us to raise $1010 for the festival! In addition 4 new members signed up for our exclusive Fedora Club.
It was an evening brimming with positive energy, great music to dance to, 10 great wines to taste and a super raffle with 7 prizes worth more than $460!
Here's a link to a bunch of photos taken by our master photographer Michael Moore. Enjoy!
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112689591421008933330/albums/6056732041823202161

Dear friends and supporters of the Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival,

are you already as excited as we are about the 2015 Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival? In addition to putting together an amazing line-up of top-class Jazz & Blues acts the festival crew has been working hard on a program to get you in the mood way before the actual festival. Here are a number of exciting pre-festival events coming up in the months leading up to the BIG event which we would like you to mark in your calendars:

Wine tasting dance party at the Hacienda Los Molinos hotel
Saturday, Sept. 6 from 4pm - 8pm
Live music by the Rigoberto Coba quartet, 10 wines to taste, and a raffle to win a $160 Fedora club membership or one of two 2-day festival passes worth $45 each, or a brand-new 2015 festival tile worth $20! Don't miss your chance to win one of these absolutely great prizes!!!
Have you got your tickets yet???
Tickets are available for $20 at Mailboxes ETC. in Boquete, at the Tuesday market, at the door or by phone 6519-7876. Don't wait to the last minute to get them - you might miss out on the fun!

Halloween party at the Oasis restaurant
Saturday, Oct. 25 from 6pm - 10pm
Live music by Gary Whiting&the Boqats. 3 course buffet of Scary Food included. A special witches' brew will be available for those sophisticated monster palates...Dresscode: Scary!  The best, the scariest and the funniest costumes will win prizes!
Monster Mash admissions will go on sale in mid-September for $28 a pop.

Black&White fundraiser party at the Valle del Rio hotel
Friday, December 5, from 6pm - 10pm
Join us for an elegant evening with live music and Italian food on the beautiful porch of the Valle del Rio hotel!

School Production of the musical Grease at the BCP communal theater
Early December: Production of the Academia Internacional de Boquete, put on stage with financial support by BJBF's Music for Schools program. Date&time tba.

Festival kick-off dance party
January 2015, date&time tba. The final party to put you in the mood for the 'Biggest little Festival' on the planet.

Opening of the 'Art of Music' show at the Boquete library
Tuesday, February 3 from 4pm - 7pm, with live music and a musical show by students of the Academia Internacional de Boquete, supported by the BJBF Music for Schools program.

Fedora Club VIP Gala party at the Valle del Rio hotel
Tuesday, Feb 4, 7pm, for Fedora club members only

And then? And then:
C'mon baby let the good times roll!

The 9th BJBF edition will get rolling with our traditional New-Orleans style street parade and ensuing garden party at the Panamonte hotel on Wednesday, Feb. 4, starting at the BCP parking lot at 12pm. Face painting & parade set-up starts right there at 10am. And don't forget the first of four (!) jam sessions will take place at Mike's Global Grill on the same day, starting at 8pm!

For further info about the actual festival program please click here: http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/program.html
Check back frequently  because at this early time the program is still subject to change.

If you're in the Boquete area come and support the 2015 festival at our next fundraiser on Sept. 6 from 4pm - 8pm at Hacienda Los Molinos. Your chance to win a complimentary Fedora Club membership or a free 2day festival pass, or one of other prizes to be announce at the event, and have lots of fun at the same time!

Here we go again….

Thanks to the overwhelming support by the Boquete community of music lovers the 2014 Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival was a roaring success…but that was absolutely no reason for the organizing team to rest on their laurels. We got back to work on BJBF2015 immediately, striving to get everything in place as early as possible….

  ….and here it is - the exciting line-up of BJBF 2015!

We're inviting all you bluesin' and jazzin' babies in Boquete and beyond to come to our grand line-up release party on June 14. Come and take a look of the video presentation of the bands that will perform at next year's Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival from Feb 5 - 8, 2015! 

Come and take a look, and you'll agree that with these first-class artists BJBF2015 promises to break all records!
Come and join us for the start of the fundraising and sponsoring campaign for BJBF 2015! 

Come, take a look and listen, and don't forget to bring you dancing shoes….and a little cash (:-)))

Right after this party, on June 15th,  we will start to sell festival tickets and Fedora Club memberships online via our website http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/tickets.html   Local ticket sales will start in September.
New members may join the Fedora Club and previous memberships may be renewed by dropping a cheque of $160 per person at Mailboxes ETC. in Boquete. Cheques need to be made out to 'Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival Foundation'. Please don't forget to leave your name and phone number and email address so we can contact you. Check out more details on our website here: http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/fedora-club.html

Please help us to raise the funds we need to cover the high costs of flight and ground transportation for the artists by buying your tickets and/or Fedora Club memberships as early as possible! Remember: This year the festival sold out completely, and the 2015 edition will certainly sell out again, and earlier!

In order to increase the cash flow for paying impending bills the festival organizers have launched the Festival Ambassador program, a new level of sponsorship. To become a Festival Ambassador interested donors are requested to offer a temporary, repayable $2000 loan to the festival. They will get special recognition on this website as well as during the festival, and they will also automatically become members of the Fedora Club thereby gaining VIP status and enjoying all benefits of the Club. These loans will be repaid from festival revenues within 14 days after the end of the festival. Please read more about it and about ways to sign up for this sponsoring option on our Festival Ambassador page.
Payment options also include online payment through the Festival Ambassador page on this website.