The 2014 Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival is history, and WOW! It was the best and most successful music festival ever in the highlands of Panama! Smiling faces, beautiful places, people dancing and having great fun all over town! You need to see it to believe it! Please check out the photo and video galleries on our website: http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/photos--videos.html With more visitors every year the festival is developing into a touristic magnet for the beautiful highlands of the Chiriqui province of Panama. It's a win-win situation: A beautiful tropical environment with rainforest covered mountains at a short distance between two oceans with endless beaches and lots of small islands to explore...there's so much to see and do in addition to a great Jazz&Blues festival!
As always, we started the festival with a BANG! Boquete goes New Orleans! This is the only New Orleans style parade in Panama, and in 2015 it'll take place at the height of carnival season! 
Photos by Michael Moore Where the main action takes place: The main stage at our breathtaking festival venue: The beautiful amphitheater in Boquete's most upscale residential community Valle Escondido!
 Photo by Mark Heyer Four days filled with great music in a tropical environment. Can't get much better than that! Check out the artists of our 2014 line-up on the right.
The BJBF Fedora Club which we inaugurated this year was a great success! 117 members signed up and helped us greatly to finance the festival!
For inquiries about the club please go to the Fedora club page on our website. Memberships for 2015 may again be purchased online later this year through our website.
Looking for a place to stay in Boquete?
Several of our fine Boquete hotels will be offering special festival packages again. Please go to the lodging page of our website for more details. Good advice: Book your hotel early! There's only limited hotel capacity in Boquete.
...meanwhile, here's what you can do to make the festival even more successful:
- Help us spread the word by telling your friends and acquaintances via email and on the social media.
- Ask your friends to sign up to this newsletter.
- Show us some love and "Like" our facebook page, and ask your friends to do so, too.
- Join our facebook group and invite your friends and email contacts to join, too.
For more information about lodging, how to get here and a bulk of general information about Boquete and Panama please visit the information page of our website!
Mark it in your calendars! The 2015 Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival is scheduled for Feb. 12 - Feb 15, 2015!
Beautiful Boquete is waiting for you! Make plans to join us for another great festival in 2015. There ain't a better way to celebrate Valentine's day and the Panamanian carnival at the same time! We can't wait to see you 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 us 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 place Panama firmly on the world-wide blues map!
Hans
BJBF webmaster
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We do owe the success of this festival also to our wonderful group of 50+ volunteers and to the support of the amazing community of our small town of Boquete. Y'all are making this all-volunteer, not-for profit festival such a unique event!
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 | | Our beautiful festival venue - the Greek-style amphitheatre at Valle Escondido, an upscale residential resort. This is surely the most beautiful venue for a festival you can find in Panama - our audiences and musicians just loved it... and you will, too!
This was the great BJBF 2014 line-up:
(please click on the artists' names to learn more about them!)
Chris Thomas King  Downchild Bluesband  Rigoberto Coba Big Band, Panama  Andy Egert  Chuck Beattie  Idania Dowman, Panama's lady of Jazz  Jamie Lynn Fletcher  Reverend Billy C. Wirtz
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
west of Panama, close to Costa
Rica  The provincial capital city of
David, and Boquete almost due
north just 38km (23 miles) away 
Our 2014 partner hotels: Hotel Oasis
Hotel Isla Verde
Hotel Villa Marita
Panamonte Inn&Spa
Hotel Valle del Rio
The Haven Spa
Resort hotel Valle Escondido
La Casa de Abuela
Hotel Ladera
The Fedora Club members 2014: Michael Peterson & Lois Michalezki, Paula & Ron Thies, Caesar & Antoinetta Sherrard, Gail & Denis Cody, Dee Harris & Rich Lipner, Doris & Bill Day, Jere McCormick, Jack Mantia & Carole Newsome, Belinda & Scott McAda, Pat Mains & Jeannie Bell, Erich DuBowik & Linda Haegner, Mike & Marta Vuytowecz, Pam & Peter Holyk, Dean & Lesa Hoover, Margarethe & Clifford Sellie, Rick & Rose Cowan, Hans Lebuser & Barbara Lapid, Beverly & Tom Stearns, Faye & Chuck Thomas, Kjersten&John van Horn, Mr.&Mrs.Valerie Longstaff, Sandi & Danny Stephens, Ronni & Frank Meyer, Althea Laporte, Lili Bess, Beverly Enns, Randi Kaplan & Dan Fitzpatrick, Megan Dameron, Leslie Landreth, John Knill, Drew Gordon, Richard Guscott, Bob Applegate & Gillian Lythgoe, Janice Beecher, Tom & Susan Brymer, Ken & Phyllis McNaughton, Ross & Barbara Michelsen, Mr.&Mrs. Steve Bliss, Todd & Gwyne Miller, Walter & Brenda Seidl, Gary & Linda Butler, Jon & Phyllis Arcuni, Alison McArthur, Gwen Manning & friend, Ralph & Karen Bergstrom, Robert & Cynthia West, David Wulf & partner, Terry Holland & Carol Neale, KatMcKay & partner, Chris Lyons & Carolyn Faye Fox, Jerry & Carol Loveless, Blanche Hinton, Eddy Pittman, Debora McClain & Bill Smith, Mark & Karen Schneider, Billy Bongiorno & Chris Whitaker, Cory Tratham, Mr.&Mrs. Phyllis Stien,Jay&Terre Hartz, James&Natalie Cascino Morris, Ampara Murcia, George Forrest & Diane Graham, John & Emily Farrar, Mary Jane, Mr.&Mrs. Steve Swanson, | | |
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