30 years Marec

Last weekend the Oakcity Jazzband played at the Marec Harbour Festival . After the official speech several happy ladies gave us great response immediately!
It was lovely weather at harbour "de Spaanjerd", the glistening water and many sailboats and yachts made the atmosphere idyllic, in which we streetparaded. It was an unexpected and pleasant surprise that the sailors and yachters expressed their appreciation to our music by tooting their horns and sirens.
Totally max was our meeting with trumpeter Carlo Nardozza, he blew our tunes "Blue Monk" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" to a higher level!
At the terraces in "Heerenlaak" it really became a party, and at the boat dock we thought descendants of Bob Marley and Jimmy Hendrix joined the band!
Monika from Duren came over to this festival, and thanks to her we have great pictures to enjoy that day again.
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Ich liebe so viel die Aachener Zeitung .......Mädchen

At the "Schlemmermarkt" in Wassenberg under the "Rosstower" we met 2 lovely newspaper promo-girls. Spontanuously and cheery they joined us during the song!
Frank shot this video ànd WOW his snare drums continues, he really is a man that can do 2 things at a time! :-)
Listen to the smooth solo of Maurits and Roel, and the improvised lyrics to the song "I can't give you anything but love"

Schlemmermarket Wassenberg

Hubaer! Cheers Mate!!

Also this year, the Oakcity Jazzband was invited at the "Schlemmermarket"-days in Wassenberg (Culinair Festival Germany). Again Hans, the organiser, was very satisfied of the big succes, because the sun, the food, the drinks and the cheerful music, were there in a perfect combination!

We had to miss our trumpetplayer Hubaer this time, and we told the people, who asked for him, that he was "im Knaster", in jail, but not for long anymore, because his helicopter was already reservated. (...and there were people who believed the gossip...)

Roel and Wim were very handsome stand-ins on trumpet, and Maurits played his soft saxofoon on one sultry evening.
...Still, we must say that Roel was almost perfect in his role of replacing Hubaer in all his facets.
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Breskens Jamsessie Crazy Wednesday

As promissed you'll get a compilation of the jamsession in Breskens (NL)
Have fun!

Crazy Wednesday Breskens (NL)

At the dolle woensdag of August 5 in Breskens were 5 bands invited to play their cheerful music. Between many colorful stands we had a very amusing evening with lots of spectators. From the animated jamsession with the Scaldis Jazzband, the Jerrie Dixie Devils, the Original Zealandband, the Blues Rhythm Four, and the Oakcity Jazzband, our Frank took some pics and a video. We ask some patience for the film, but you can already watch the pictures here.

Carnaval Mundial Elsloo (NL)

Cheer Girls
"It was a very crowded house at Carnaval Mundial 2009 in Elsloo.
We've got a lot of nice reactions from the audience during the streetparade, and after that it looked more and more like Carnaval. The organisation can look back on a very succesful edition. We heard there were more than 15.000 visitors!
Nancy made a foto-report of our Streetparade and from Photographer Fons Verhoeve we got some beautiful close-ups. Nancy, Fons, many thanks! Martin, René, thanks for joining the band!
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