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!