[News Boquete] Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival 2013

We're happy to present the new BJBF newsletter to all friends of the Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival. If you like what we're doing please forward this newsletter to your friends. Thank you! Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.      Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival            Feb 28  - March 3, 2013    BJBF Newsletter February 2013-2 Photo: Ron Elkind 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! More information about the following festival days will be posted soon! Check out the full festival program here: http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/program-ticketscontribution-packages.html Open air schedule at the Valle Escondido amphitheater (subject to change) Saturday, March 2 12noon - 1pm    B3 and Yella / Boquete with special guest Andy Egert/Switzerland 1:30 - 2:30pm    Carlos Ubarte Latin Jazz quintet, Panama   3:00 -  4:00pm    Ron Hacker&The Hacksaws, USA    4:30 - 5:30pm    Maria Rivas and her Libertango band, USA/Venezuela Sunday March 3 12noon - 1pm    Spicy Latin Jazzband, Panama    1:30 - 2:30pm    Bob Corritore &Taildragger & B3, USA/Boquete  3:00 - 4:00pm    Rigoberto Coba Big Band, David/Chiriqui  4:30 -5:30pm    Randy Oxford Band, USA For pre-festival events and all additional activities like free concerts and  jam sessions during the festival please download the complete program here: http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/ Ticket prices: $20 One-day ticket for March 2 or March 3, 2013. Prices for students and minors are $5 per day $30 Festival passes for both days for adults,  $7.50 for students and minors (below age 18). Tickets are available at Mailboxes ETC. in Boquete and David, at the Tuesday Market in Boquete, at the Valle Escondido Hotel, at the Amigos restaurant and at the Fuzion Grill House in Boquete. Call 6519-7876 for reservations of tickets to be held on will call Tickets and contribution packages may also be purchased online via our website: http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/program-ticketscontribution-packages.html Finally: Please help funding the festival by buying our festival merchandise. Choose from a t-shirt for $12, a baseball cap for $13, a beautiful mug for $8, a wonderful festival tile for $20, a shopping bag for $3, a bumpersticker for $2, a car license plate for $10 or a great set of 4 DVD's with wonderful footage of last year's festival for only $20!  Available every Tuesday at the market at the BCP in Boquete, and later at the festival venue. If you like exquisite rum - one of the best rums on this planet - you'll be at the right place when coming to our 2013 festival Take a look at our beautiful collectible festival tiles: We're offering a new beautiful festival tile every year. These are true gems, made by Tucan Tiles, a local tile shop right here in Boquete. They are selling for $20 a piece. We'll still have a few of the 2012 tiles available at the festival. A collector's package of both tiles is available for $35. As with our other merchandise we're not able to ship them abroad for cost reasons but you can order by email and we'll keep a copy for you at the festival venue.    Don't lose it: February 28 until March 3 are the dates of the 2013 festival! Drive, run, crawl, swim, fly, walk...whatever and however...you got to be here! Any suggestions, questions, need more information? I'll be glad to hear from you and to help you as much as I can. Just shoot me a mail via the contact form on our website by clicking here! If you like this newsletter please forward it to your friends and ask them to sign up also. Help us to spread the word and to put Panama on the world-wide blues map! Don't ask what the festival can do for you - ask what you can do for the festival! Please patronize the sponsors of the 2013 festival. Without them the festival won't happen. Click on the images to learn more about their business....              Revilla Pharmancy                            Our beautiful festival venue - everybody loved it last year so we'll do it there again in 2013! The Greek-style amphitheatre at Valle Escondido, an upscale residential resort is one of the most beautiful places in the country, a perfect place for our festival! (Photo by Mark Heyer) Here are the amazing artists who will perform at the 7th annual Boquete Jazz & Blues festival: Bob Corritore & Taildragger "One day this boy is going to take my place" (Howling Wolf). The one and only legendary Taildragger, a Chicago blues legend singing in the style of Howling Wolf, and his longtime friend in the Blues Bob Corritore (harp) have played major festivals all over the world, and we're very happy to have them come to Panama for the first time. Their show will definitely be a highlight of the festival! The Randy Oxford Band Randy Oxford plays a wild trombone, and anybody who has ever seen and heard his band in action won't forget it! Their show at our festival will also be their first-ever performance in Central America. We're very proud being able to present these great musicians to the Boquete festival audience! Brace yourself, Boquete! You'll be blown away! Andy Egert Swiss blues award winner and Switzerland's hardest working bluesman Andy Egert fell in love with Panama and Boquete so much when he came to play at the 2012 Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival that he was dying to come back...so we'll have him back as a special guest playing with Boquete's own Bluesband, the B3! You can be sure to see this untiring bluesman sit in and play at each and every opportunity where he can unpack his guitar and harp and start jamming! (photo by Bruce Tohill) The Boquete Blues Band (B3) and Yella One of the objectives of the Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival is giving local talents a chance to showcase their art in front of a larger audience. The mixed Panamanian/expat B3 have been honing their skills at local venues and festival fundraisers for years, and at the 2012 festival they did a great job backing up Mitch Woods and Johnny Sansone. They'll be backing up Bob Corritore and Taildragger at the 2013 festival, and they'll have their first well-earned own show on the festival stage in 2013, featuring Boquete's best loved vocalist Yella, and special guest Andy Egert from Switzerland on guitar and harp. Spicy Latin Jazzband Spicy Latin Jazz is a very appropriate name for this band. Playing a very danceable style of Jazz spiced with intricate Latin rhythms they know how to please their audiences. Bandleader Arturo Villareal and his band have played the Boquete Jazz festival before and always got rave reviews, so we're happy to have them back in the highlands once again. (photo by Howard Hill) Carlos Ubarte quintet One of the most sought after sax players in Panama! The Boquete audience knows and loves Carlos and his band from previous festival shows. He'll come to Boquete with his quintet this time, and has promised to present a completely new and exciting show! (photo by Bruce Tohill) Ron Hacker & The Hacksaws Raw, down&dirty blues from San Francisco. Ron played a great solo show at the 2012 festival but seeing and hearing him play with his band is a totally different treat! For 2013 we'll have him back with his trio, the Hacksaws. Blues can't get much better than this! Maria Rivas and her Libertango band Venezuela's great Jazz singer, painter and ecological activist Maria Rivas is coming to Panama for the first time, and we're proud being able to present this great artist and her band at our festival. She astonishes audiences with her mastery of Jazz variations, much in the style of Ella Fitzgerald and other notable divas.Her well-tuned voice, her command of English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, and her considerable personal charm and beauty have built her a large crowd of loyal fans. Also, she has become a leading voice in the region's environmental movement, which has earned her ample recognition. Her musical message as a composer often has ecological undertones. Her show will be another true highlight of the festival! (Photo J. Loscher) Rigoberto Coba Big Band A native of  our provincial capital of David, and a professor of music, Rigoberto Coba (sax) put together an 18 piece big band just for our festival. The show was their first public performance, closing the festival with that wonderful big band swing sound! We've been asked many times to get them back for next year. We listened, and so they're already working on their show for 2013 which will also include some special guests from the USA! You don't wanna miss this show! (photo by Mark Heyer) The map section Guess you wanna know where the hell we are.... Well, here's Panama, almost due south of Miami: The province of Chiriqui in the westof Panama, close to Costa Rica The provincial capital city of David, and Boquete almost due north just 38km (23 miles) away These are the passengers on our Panama Red Choo-Choo: Doreen Delong, Boquete Electrical Solutions (Kevin Fisher), Larry Slagle (Big Daddy's restaurant), Matt Verstraete, Martine&Mark Heyer, Penny Ripple, Janice Beecher, Paula Theis, Gail Cody, Mike's Global Grill, Jack Mantia, Carole Newsome, Valerie&Billy Joe Gallbraith, Karen&Mark Schnieder, Al&Sela Mills, Lesa&Dean Hoover, Eva Knipp, Sabine Reinsdorf, Jim Omer, Jerry&Erdi Knezic, Randi Kaplan, Dan Fitzgerald,Caesar Sherrard, Alie MacArthur, Jeff Brown, Steve&Sylvia Gibson G&B Tropical Hardwoods,Walt Seidl,Judy Gramaglia&Cowboy Dave,William Wooderson, Rich LIpner (Finca dos Jefes), Gary&Linda Butler, Ray Busher, Zaida Frising, Betsy Waddington, Steven E. Kinney, Scott&Belinda McAda, Tom&Carolyne Bot, Mr.&Mrs. Munson, Tom&Susie Brymer, Doris&Bill Day, Jeff Brown, Emilie Daniel, Jere Mc Cormick, Danny Blank,Cliff Sellie, Lanay and Adriano Correa, Velkys Munoz, John Knill,Drew Gordon,Leon Rye, Jackie Lange, This  'train' has been sold out! And who's riding on the Panamonte XXV Reserva Preciosa Special? Mr. Jack Mantia, Ms. Carole Newsome, Mr. Hans Lebuser, Ms. Barbara Lapid, Ms. Kjersten van Horn(The River Ranch), Ms. Robbin Voigt (Interior Gardens, Austin Tx), Mr. Tim Snyder, Mr. Robert Boyd (El Bajareque), KLM, Only 18 seats left on this one! Check us out on the social media: Our Facebook page Join our facebook group! Follow us on twitter! Twitter page of the BJBF president  follow us on Twitter | become a friend on Facebook | forward to a friend | Join the Club! Any questions? Suggestions? Need more information? Contact us! Copyright © 2013 Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival Foundation, All rights reserved. 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