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	HEINEKEN BONAIRE JAZZ & SALSA FESTIVAL MAY 17 - 18 - 19 - 20, 2007 A long weekend JAZZ & SALSA for jazz & salsa lovers on Bonaire

PROGRAM 2007

May 16		Opening Art Exposition "Polyrhytmik" at Kas di Arte with live Jazz.
		Open all days of the Festival. Every day at Sunset: Art Wines and Live Jazz
		Sponsored by KPMG
May 17		Sponsor of the day:MCB
		Opening of the Festival at Fort Oranje at 730 pm: Art and Poetry.
		Oswin "Chin" Behilia and Linda Anthony .
		Sponsored by Caribbean Laundry
		Festival Bands and Local Bands at Wilhelminaplein.
		Free Entrance sponsored by City Café
		Jam Sessions at Little Havana ,sponsored by
		Russel Insurance every day of the Festival
VIP arrangements at Plaza Resort available Ang 117,50: a three course dinner including entrance ticket and 25 Ang drinks; tickets and reservations( 7172500) at Plaza Resort and at the gate on May 18 &19			Tickets for 2 concerts ANG 50,- Tickets for 2 concerts ANG 50,-
May 18		Sponsor of the day: More for Less
		Main concert at Plaza Resort Tipsy Seagull Restaurant from 730 pm until 100 am with: Oswin "Chin" Behila
		Quintet, Affettuoso with guest Boy Janga, Trio Yuri Honing and Gerado Rosales
		Mongomania Salsa and Latin Jazz
		At 100:Jam Sessions at Little Havana sponsored by Russel Insurances
VIP arrangements at Plaza Resort available Ang 117,50: a three course dinner including entrance ticket and 25 Ang drinks; tickets and reservations( 7172500) at Plaza Resort and at the gate on May 18 &19
May 19		Sponsor of the day: Rocargo Services
		At 10 am: Workshop at Skol di Musika with Joost Lijbaart (drums) and
		Gerado Rosales (percussion) sponsored by Flamingo ICT
		Main concert at Plaza Resort Tipsy Seagull Restaurant from 730 until 0100 with: Bonaire Students Band & guests Franklin Granadio and Scott Katzev sponsored by Notariskantoor Maarten Maartense,
		The Happy Band ,Trio Jean Jacques Rojer, The WES - Group and Paoli Mejias Latin Jazz Quintet, sponsored by Bonaire Partners
		At 100:Jam Sessions at Little Havana sponsored by Russel Insurances
May 20		Jazz Brunch with all Festival Musicians at Divi Flamingo Resort
		from 12 until 300 pm
		At 500 pm: Great Sunset Beach Party at Bongos Beach with Freewinds Band &
		international guests starting at 5 pm until 900 pm
		At 10 pm: Jam sessions at Little Havana sponsored by Russel Insurance

During The Festival Scott Katzev is invited as an artist in residence. He plays the saxophones and is a creative, top level musician from Memphis,USA. He will enforce local bands on Bonaire , giving workshops and playing at Jam Sessions.
Combined tickets for the concerts on Friday and Saturday will be sold for Ang 50,-. Students pay half prices for concerts on Friday & Saturday

Visit www.bonairejazz.com for information and program 2005 & 2006

Top attractions from Cuba, Brasil, USA & Puerto Rico. Support acts from Holland ,Aruba, Curacao, Venezuela, Bonaire

Prominent place for Bonairian bands with external support, students band and salsa groups.

The Bonaire Jazz Foundation: linking musicians and listeners
The Foundation is an initiative of musicians and jazz lovers. The board consists of residents of the island and is independent and registered as a foundation on Bonaire (S 318 )
The Festival of 2005 was organized by the foundation in cooperation with locations and sponsors; furthermore the foundation exploits a website with all information about jazz : where to go for listening , where to go for playing or to meet other musicians.

The First Bonaire Jazzfestival is supported on the island
A group of businesspeople, private persons, musicians and organizations is supporting the Bonaire Jazz Festival:

Bonaire is a small island with a strong cultural identity. It is evident from what also can be seen by the great number of local musicians and musical groups on the island. Here, you can listen to all kinds of music; tumba, reggae, salsa, meringues and all those sounds which have a lot in common with jazz: syncopes, swinging rhythms and improvisation.
From that perspective it was not surprising that Bonaire had a blossoming jazz club for many years and a great number of good jazz musicians playing Latin and Caribbean jazz mixed with the musical spice of the island itself.
Guus Gerritsen: "The idea for a jazz festival on Bonaire developed into reality after our visit to the Surinam Jazz Festival in October 2005. We were invited to play along with local groups in pubs and bars off the side the festival stages. The city of Paramaribo was a swinging place!
We met Denise Jannah, our featured star in this Bonaire Jazz Festival, and performed a wonderful "Summertime" together, never to be forgotten.
On our way home we made up our minds: let's do this also in Bonaire, we have the opportunities, the places and the island would welcome a new yearly event.
Thanks to all our sponsors we will have a wonderful event to come!

More information

If you need more information call us or send an email to info@bonairejazz.com
BONAIRE JAZZ FESTIVAL
tel / fax 00 599 717 4496
www.bonairejazz.org
www.bonairejazz.com

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