[Dixielandjazz] Bohem Ragtime Jazz Band, Sonoma, Nov 28

[Robert S. Ringwald]

> As most of you know, our Listmate Tamas Ittzes from Kecskemet, Hungary is
> currently in Northern California with his Bohem Ragtime Jazz Band.  They
> will be appearing at Little Swisserland in Sonoma on Monday Nov 28, 6:00 -
> 10:00 PM.

For directions, see below:
 >

> The Bohem Ragtime Jazzband
> was founded in 1985. Its members are young professional classical and Jazz
> musicians.  At the beginning their main profile was ragtime but nowadays
> they feel
> at home in every traditional jazz style from New Orleans through dixieland
> and spiritual
> to swing.
>
> The Bohém Ragtime Jazz Band
> have appeared at the best Festivals (Berlin, Biel, Dresden, Düsseldorf,
> 's-Hertogenbosch,
> Montreux, Oslo, Salzburg, San José - California, Tilburg stb.), they
> frequently tour
> Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Croatia,
> Poland,
> Germany, Norway, Romania, Switzerland, Slovakia) and Canada and the US,
> their recordings
> can be heard on several European and American radio stations. Their
> concerts
> have
> been broadcast by Hungarian, Rumanian, German and Finnish TV channels.
>
> The band won first prize in the Hungarian Dixieland Competition in 1994
> and
> 1995 and was awarded the prestigious Hungarian eMeRTon Prize as "Jazz band
> of the
> year" in 2003.
>
> The band has nine CD's and two LPs's. The leader,  Tamás Ittzés, has
> recorded two solo albums for a Californian label and both received
> critical
> acclaim in
> important jazz periodicals. He won first prize from the Ragtime
> Composition
> Contest
> of the Scott Joplin Foundation with his Sedalia Rag in 2001. The band's
> Kecskemét
> Jazz Foundation organizes Hungary's biggest jazz festival, the
> International Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival
> every year since 1992.
>
> For more info on the Bohem Ragtime Jazz Band, see

 http://www.bohemragtime.com
>
> I suggest that you come early to get a good seat.

Monday night, November 28th, 6-10 PM
A great opportunity to hear a fine European jazz band
BOHEM RAGTIME JAZZ BAND
 Check out the band's website at
http://www.bohemragtime.com/english/index.html

 Nov 28 Mon 6-10 pm Little Switzerland
401 Grove St., Sonoma (corner of Riverside & Grove St.), Phone: (707) 
938-9990
Large dance floor, good food - and yes, the music!...
Directions: from Sonoma - located just off Highway 12, take Riverside
Drive to Grove St.
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