World-Class music on the slopes of Volcan Baru
Note: For the 16th annual BJBF edition festival director John Wolff took the festival from the mountains to the sea.
The 2024 event took place at the fabulous Buenaventura Hotel&Golf resort on the Pacific coast of Panama, about a one hour drive from Panama City.
Please check the 'Festival 2024' page in the menu line above to see the great line up as well as photos of the 2024 event.
The 2024 event took place at the fabulous Buenaventura Hotel&Golf resort on the Pacific coast of Panama, about a one hour drive from Panama City.
Please check the 'Festival 2024' page in the menu line above to see the great line up as well as photos of the 2024 event.
Gold sponsors
Hotel Buenaventura
Bronze sponsors
Big Daddy's restaurant
Community sponsors
Oasis hotel&restaurant
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A wonderful music festival in the Chiriqui highlands....
The beautiful Chiriqui Highlands have long been one of Panama’s most favorite vacation and retirement spots, and the jewel of Chiriqui province is beautiful Boquete (GPS 8º 46' 30"N, 82º 26' W) home of about 25,000 including some 2,500 retired expats from all over the world. Located at an elevation of 3,000 ft it is also the home of some of the best coffees in the world. The cool, crisp mountain air on the slopes of towering Volcan Baru, Panama's highest mountain, delicious fresh mountain water, an abundant nature with lots of flowers, flamboyantly flowering trees and hundreds of species of birds plus the closeness to two oceans have attracted visitors from all over the world.The natural beauty of Boquete is the perfect setting to stimulate the creative talents and artistic abilities of those who live here as well as those who come for a visit. So it is no surprise that this small town hosts a lively art and music scene which culminates in the annual Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival. Right from the start in 2007 the Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival has been the biggest music event in the province of Chiriqui. Since 2012, the event was also the first ever festival in Panama to showcase first-class international Blues acts in addition to notable Panamanian and Latin American artists featuring Jazz and Latin American music styles, and they were a great success! Get the feeling of what the Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival is all about... outstanding talent performing, smiling faces, beautiful places, everybody's dancing and having great fun...what a great community event this is! Check it out in the videos of previous festivals below!
The HiLites videos below are just a small selection of what happened at the 'Biggest Little Festival' in the last years. We can't show all of it on the front page but there's much, much more to enjoy of excellent shows of recent years on our gallery/archives page HiLites from The Biggest Little Festival in the World - BMAF2018
(For images of the 2024 Beaches festival please check the 'Festival 2024' page in the menu line at the top of this page). Olga Sinclair "Arte Para Niños de Escuela" BMAF2018
Deanna Bogart, Ian Siegal and Anne Harris perform for Niños de Escuela BMAF2018.
Children of Boquete perform for BMAF2018
All Star Band BJBF2017
HiLites of the tremendous Biggest Little Festival in the World - 2016 10th anniversary edition
The unbelievably powerful show of Curtis Salgado at BJBF2016...can't get any better than this! You need to watch this!!! You'll be blown away! With Deanna Bogart, Scott Ambush, Matt Schofield, Lance Andersen, Michael Aubin.....
HiLites of the tremendous Biggest Little Festival in the World - 2015
HiLites from BJBF2014
HiLites from BJBF2013
HiLites from BJBF2012
Street Parade BJBF2012
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Jazz & Blues Festival and so much more!
We'd LOVE to see you at our festival but there is so much more to see and do while you're here! Having traveled so far to get here you'll certainly won't want to miss the abundance of exciting places and adventures Panama has to offer. Please check out our visitors' info page for more information,and check out our photo&video gallery for more wonderful documents of our wonderful "Biggest Little Festival on the Planet"!
We'd LOVE to see you at our festival but there is so much more to see and do while you're here! Having traveled so far to get here you'll certainly won't want to miss the abundance of exciting places and adventures Panama has to offer. Please check out our visitors' info page for more information,and check out our photo&video gallery for more wonderful documents of our wonderful "Biggest Little Festival on the Planet"!
The Boquete Jazz&Blues festival is an official national cultural event of Panama supported by the Panamanian Tourist Authority and the mayor of Boquete.
The photos on this site have been created by Michael Moore, Bruce Tohill, Gaby Bacon, Ron Elkind, Mark Heyer, Howard Hill, Hans Lebuser, Doreen Delong, Bernie Verhoeven.
Videos and slideshows have been created by John Hampton, Tom Brymer, Hans Lebuser, Noris Miranda, Antonio Singh. Logos and banners for BJBF have been created by Karin Carney, www.maritamade.com
Videos and slideshows have been created by John Hampton, Tom Brymer, Hans Lebuser, Noris Miranda, Antonio Singh. Logos and banners for BJBF have been created by Karin Carney, www.maritamade.com
