Screaming Hot Jazz and Blues was on tap this last weekend with bands traveling from around the world to play for us here in Boquete.
The festival began with a street parade led by a marching band and our local golf cart battalion!!
The photographers were out in numbers and the photo album is worth watching.
This year members of the new Boquete Photography Club participated in the documentation of the Boquete Jazz Festival (and a GREAT festival it was!). All of the photographs from the Festival have now been consolidated on a dedicated site. You can see them here.
Shooting with Ron Elkind, Michael Moore, Gaby Bacon, Howard Hill, Bob Gregory and others, Mark Heyer focused on the people in the stands – and what happy people they were. They all met wonderful people from all over the world who had come to Boquete to see this Jazz Festival. Boquete has many new friends after this weekend.
The beautiful Chiriqui Highlands have long been one of Panama’s most favorite vacation and retirement spots, and the jewel of Chiriqui province is beautiful Boquete, home of about 15,000 including some 1,500 retired expats from all over the world. Located at an elevation of 3,000 ft it is also the home of some of the best coffees in the world. The cool, crisp mountain air on the slopes of towering Volcan Baru, Panama’s highest mountain, delicious fresh mountain water, an abundant nature with lots of flowers, flamboyantly flowering trees and hundreds of species of birds plus the closeness to two oceans have attracted visitors from all over the world.The natural beauty of Boquete is the perfect setting to stimulate the creative talents and artistic abilities of those who live here as well as those who come for a visit. So it is no surprise that this small town hosts a lively art and music scene which culminates in the annual Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival.
Right from the start in 2007 the Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival has been the biggest music event in the province of Chiriqui. The 2012 edition was also the first ever festival in Panama to showcase first-class international Blues acts in addition to notable Panamanian and Latin American artists featuring Jazz and Latin American music styles.
