Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival

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Comment by Hans-J. Lebuser on February 24, 2013 at 10:27am

We’re almost there!
The 2013 Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival is just a couple of days away!

Day 1: Thursday Feb 28
It’s gonna be a very busy day indeed, a day filled with loads of fun, laughter, and dancing to great music all day!

2pm -3pm: Boquete goes New Orleans! Come join us for the craziest, most colorful parade this town has ever seen! Dress up, dress down, wear whatever you want (but wear something!), paint your face and dance in the streets of Boquete! The parade will start at the BCP parking lot and will end at the Panamonte hotel.

3pm – 5pm: The parade will dance on in the garden of the Panamonte Inn with live music of the Rigoberto Coba quartet, hurricanes, and New Orleans style food. Admission $5 at the door.

7pm – 9pm: The show goes on! Come to the bar of the Panamonte Inn to get a free shot of the exquisite Panamonte XXV Reserva Preciosa, meet the Panama Red girl and the makers of this extraordinary rum. Shake hands with Hilary Hemingway (niece of Ernest) and Jeff Lindsay, author of the Dexter series. Dance to live music by Boquete’s own Fantazy Jazzband. Admission $5 at the door.

9pm - ??? The days’ not done yet! The Blues is in the house at Mike’s Global Grill! Ron Hacker&The Hacksaws, the Bay area’s hottest Blues band are going to bring the house down at Mike&Heidi’s place with the first jam session of the festival. You’ll never know who else will be joining the jam... A MUST for all hard-core bluesers! Admission $8 a the door.

All admissions will help to finance the events and the festival!

Too much fun? You can sleep when you’re dead!

Check out the full festival program here: http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/program-ticketscontribution-packages.html

PHOTO BELOW BY RON ELKIND

Comment by Hans-J. Lebuser on February 20, 2013 at 9:00pm

The wine-tasting dance party has been cancelled! You'll get refunds at the point of sales where you bought your tickets!

Comment by Hans-J. Lebuser on February 19, 2013 at 8:54pm

Hey Boquete and beyond, WAKE UP!

 

There’s a great wine-tasting dance party coming your way on Saturday, Feb 23 – but  you bought  very few ticket so far!

 

If that doesn’t change dramatically until this coming Thursday, WE’RE GOING TO CANCEL IT!!!

(No sweat, you’ll get your money back if you are among the DARING few who have already bought their ticket!)

 

In case you haven’t noticed there’s another great Jazz&Blues Festival coming your way in just 9 days from now – and ticket sales are far from what they need to be. The same  applies to merchandise sales.

At the time of writing we’re still facing a deficit of up to 8 grand!

 

If that won’t change dramatically in the remaining days this will definitely be the last ever Jazz & Blues Festival in Boquete!!!

 

The organizers have been working their asses off to make this festival happen, and they’re not getting paid for anything!

 

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN TO ACCEPT THIS GIFT TO THE BOQUETE COMMUNITY AND SUPPORT IT WITH BUYING A TICKET, BUY THE MERCHANDISE OR SIMPLY DONATE!!!

 

C’mon Boquete, get out of the woods.  Stop napping, get down from the mountains AND GO BUY YOUR TICKETS PRONTO, DAMN IT!

 

Wine tasting and Jazz&Blues Festival tickets are available at Mailboxes ETC. in Boquete and at the Tuesday marlket. Festival tickets also at Mailboxes ETC in David.

Call 6519-7876 for tickets to be held on will call.

Comment by Hans-J. Lebuser on February 19, 2013 at 8:52pm

Hey Boquete and beyond, WAKE UP!

 

There’s a great wine-tasting dance party coming your way on Saturday, Feb 23 – but  you bought  very few ticket so far!

 

If that doesn’t change dramatically until this coming Thursday, WE’RE GOING TO CANCEL IT!!!

(No sweat, you’ll get your money back if you are among the DARING few who have already bought their ticket!)

 

In case you haven’t noticed there’s another great Jazz&Blues Festival coming your way in just 9 days from now – and ticket sales are far from what they need to be. The same  applies to merchandise sales.

At the time of writing we’re still facing a deficit of up to 8 grand!

 

If that won’t change dramatically in the remaining days this will definitely be the last ever Jazz & Blues Festival in Boquete!!!

 

The organizers have been working their asses off to make this festival happen, and they’re not getting paid for anything!

 

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN TO ACCEPT THIS GIFT TO THE BOQUETE COMMUNITY AND SUPPORT IT WITH BUYING A TICKET, BUY THE MERCHANDISE OR SIMPLY DONATE!!!

 

C’mon Boquete, get out of the woods.  Stop napping, get down from the mountains AND GO BUY YOUR TICKETS PRONTO, DAMN IT!

 

Wine tasting and Jazz&Blues Festival tickets are available at Mailboxes ETC. in Boquete and at the Tuesday marlket. Festival tickets also at Mailboxes ETC in David.

Call 6519-7876 for tickets to be held on will call.

Comment by Hans-J. Lebuser on February 13, 2013 at 8:21pm

Comment by Hans-J. Lebuser on January 14, 2013 at 8:49pm

Reminder!

Polish your dancing shoes, throw on your foxy party attire and join us for
this unique evening of the first-ever show of our beloved Yella singing the blues
in front of the Boquete Blues Band!!!

Your admission fee is crucial to help finance the Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival!

Win a $400 bottle of excellent Panamonte XXY Reserva Preciosa* rum plus
two festival passes, a festival tile and preferred seating at the festival for just $5
in our Support-the-Festival raffle!

*) Made and donated by Panamonte Brands LLC, makers of the
      Smoothest Rum on Earth™

The Fuzion House Grill (former Las Ruinas restaurant) is located about
7 miles down the road towards David, across from the Las Brisas community.

Comment by Hans-J. Lebuser on December 2, 2012 at 9:08pm

Comment by Hans-J. Lebuser on November 30, 2012 at 11:46am

Hey, jazz&blues aficionados & all cool cats who loooooooooved our 2012 festival (and those who missed it this year):

You can now buy your festival tickets & festival passes as well as our various contribution packages ONLINE!
Just go to our website here: http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/ticketscontribution-packages.html

Sale of physical tickets will start in early December at Mailboxes ETC. in Boquete and David, at the Tuesday market in Boquete as well as at the Valle Escondido hotel.

The festival venue for the two open-air days on March 2 and 3 will again be the beautiful amphitheater in Valle Escondido.

Here's our big wish/request/appeal to all of you cool cats:

You can help us tremendously by buying your tickets and sending us your contributions EARLY! GO ONLINE and DO IT!

Please also don't wait until the last minute to buy your festival merchandise!
We'll be at the Tuesday market in Boquete every week - hope to see you there!

Let's rock on and create the best Boquete festival ever!

Comment by Hans-J. Lebuser on September 1, 2012 at 1:16pm

Our 9th free concert in the Boquete central park is coming up on Sunday, Sept. 9 from 11am to 1pm featuring our friend and well known local musician Adam Rodriguez and his band. if you're in the area stop by to enjoy another beautiful lazy Sunday morning in the park!

Comment by Hans-J. Lebuser on August 28, 2012 at 12:18pm

Here's another wonderful memory of the great 2012 Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival:

One of the outstanding “International” events during this year’s Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival was the Jam Session held at Amigos on the Saturday night, March 3

rd. In all, about 25 different musicians showed up from all the groups and they made for some of the most entertaining performances of the entire weekend. All the tunes were spontaneous and unrehearsed, with various artists (and instruments!) coming and going over several exciting hours.
Here is a noteworthy performance of Herbie Hancock’s iconic Cantaloupe Island by eight musicians representing Panama, USA, Canada, Netherlands and Kenya. The horn playing is remarkable (Carlos Ubarte, Jon Day, Saskia Laroo), followed by an electrifying keyboard solo (Warren Byrd), great guitar breakouts (Edgar Vargas, Maarten Bakker) and some inspired drumming (Willem Smid, Amadou Seck).

To view click on this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqOBeSDl-Bg&feature=em-share_vi...

If you like this, look for the 4 DVD set of the entire 2012 Festival, available later next month for only $20. All proceeds will go towards next year’s BJBF.

Video and text by John Hampton, NotSereyus Productions, Boquete

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