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24th International Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival, Kecskemét, Hungary, March 27-29, 2015

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Dear Jazz Friend,

As you probably know we’ll have a fantastic line-up at our 24th International Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival in Kecskemét, Hungary, March 27-29, 2015 (including the Echoes of Swing from Germany, Paolo Alderighi, Stephanie Trick, a European All Star band, and, of course, the Bohém Ragtime Jazz Band).

Early Birds get a little gift (festival T-shirt and DVD) if they pay until Oct 31 – which is today (I’m writing this shortly before midnight in Hungary). We have mailed out flyers about the festival few weeks ago but just learnt that not everyone has received it yet. Therefore we have no other choice but postponing the Early Bird deadline for those who would like to come and get a little gift for being so prompt. THE NEW DEADLINE FOR EARLY BIRDS IS NOVEMBER 10, 2014.

We have advertised our usual 7-day Vacation Package for those who would like to spend a few extra days exploring Hungary’s beauty after the festival. We already have 30 people signed up for the tour so hurry up if you want to be part of a fun festival and tour. In case, we do not know your mailing address and/or you haven’t received anything from us, please, take a look at our festival page for the packages: http://www.bohemragtime.com/en/hotel.html

You can also find the programme, performers and all necessary information about the festival by clicking the appropriate titles on the left Menu bar. Note that as a VIP member you have 75 EUR (or 100 USD) off of any package price. More information about the VIP membership can be found in our Webshop, in case, you haven’t signed up yet: http://www.bohemragtime.com/en/vip.html

We hope to see you in March. Please, do not hesitate as the packages will be filled up soon. We have limited places in both the hotels and in the buses. If you have ANY questions, don’t gesitate to ask!

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By the way, if you are near, the Bohém Ragtime Jazz Band can be heard next week in Switzerland (Nov 5, Wed 7 pm, Widen, KiBiZi) and France (Nov 7, Fri 7 pm, La Rochelle).

And we will be 30 years old next year. Our anniversary gala concert will be held in the most prestigious concert hall of Hungary (Palace of Art, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest) on the 26th of February. The concert is entitled ‘La femme fatale’ as our guest will be the internationally acclaimed opera singer, Viktória Vizin. In case, you can make it to Budapest in February (a highly recommended show!), you can reserve your seats here: https://www.mupa.hu/en/program/la-femme-fatale-2015-02-26_19-30-bela-bartok-national-concert-hall (tickets are 3, 6 and 9 thousand Hungarian Forints, about 10, 20 and 30 Euros).

With Bohém regards,Tamás Ittzés

 
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23rd International Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival in Hungary

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Dear Jazz Friend,

Some important and urgent news/notifications, please read what interests you:

1. Visit Hungary’s best classical jazz festival! (Even if you don’t intend to come, check out the GREAT videos below!)
2. Our new CD is out.
3. Tour in the USA.

1. GREAT line up, great offers: visit the 23rd International Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival in Hungary (March 28-30, 2014)!
We have been putting up our small but great festival every year since 1992. Even circumstances have been worse and worse, we are still alive and proud to announce that we’ll have our 23rd Bohém Festival as one of the strongest regarding the line up. The festival is entitled “New York, New York!” and it is really worth to visit. Line up includes:
The EarRegulars (featuring Jon-Erik Kellso on trumpet and Scott Robinson on reeds)
Aaron Weinstein on violin (all from New York)
Ondrej Havelka and the Melody Makers from Prague, the best orchestra playing the music of the 20’s and 30’s (the other equally very best such orchestra is the Bratislava Hot Serenaders, they have played at our festival twice already)
Bohém Ragtime Jazz Band (us, this time with a surprise guest and novelty approach)
and other Hungarian musicians

If you haven’t signed up yet, please, read: We are offering 7-day tour packages as well, so you have the chance to see some of our beatiful country besides hearing many great musicians. If you sign up and complete your payment this year, you’ll be getting a complimentary package (Festival T-shirt, DVD and wine for the 7-day package attendees / Festival T-shirt if you come only for the weekend). See details at the festival’s website: http://www.bohemragtime.com/en/act.html

Download the flyer for Festival packages here (you might have received it by regular mail, too): http://www.bohemragtime.com/upload/fest/14-touristinfo.pdf

Payment for packages or tickets is possible through our Bohém Webshop, too: http://www.bohemragtime.com/en/tickets.html

And here are two videos of our 2014 festival performers:

The EarRegulars (Chinatown, my Chinatown): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkPYlBRLqM
Melody Makers (at the beginning there is a little chat in Czech which I don’t undersatnd a word of but it is worth to watch the whole video! Havelka sings and tap dances, he is a genius): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSOD3SMwSd0

(you can search YouTube for Havelka and the Melody Makers, all videos are great)

2. Bohém Originals: our new CD is out!
We have released our newest album in November. It contains only self-composed tunes, 21 tunes by our 3 band members. Great music, great recording, really 🙂 We had a concert introducing the album and I was surprised to see and hear how very well the music was received. Sounds like good old American ragtime and jazz tunes with a bit Hungarian flavour 🙂 You can listen to “Our Lovely Beer” from the CD by visiting our Soundcloud channel: https://soundcloud.com/bohemragtime

The Bohém Originals CD can be ordered from the Bohém Webshop at: http://www.bohemragtime.com/en/cds.html

3. Tour in the USA in January:
I will be touring the US for 2 weeks in January, playing 8 concerts in St. George (Utah), Green Valley (Arizona) and San Francisco, Sutter Creek and Rio Vista in California. Please, drop me an email if you are interested to know the exact venues and times. (European friends would not be interested, anyway, so I am not wasting their time with details here…)

I hope to see you at the Bohém Festival in Hungary, if not earlier! 🙂

And on behalf of the whole band I wish you a very successful, jazzy Happy New Year!

With Bohém regards,

Tamás Ittzés