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Zwarte Pieten & Oakcity Jazzband

At the woonboulevard in Heerlen we met this Black Pete ?? Band (Zwarte Pieten Band)
We played a St.-Nicolas tune together, each band in its own way. Franky was in the neighbourhood and made this video. Have fun!

Christmas Happening in Peer

There is a Christmas Happening in Peer next weekend.
Last year is was stoooooooooone-cold but veeeeeeery cosy!
You should come, and bring your children, grandchildren, wife, husband, partner, mom, dad, uncles, ants, cousins, your whole family too.
The Oakcity Jazzband plays on Sunday at 2:00 pm.

Jazz im Rathaus Gladbeck

They have very fast writers in Gladbeck! We were just arrived in our hometown and we are already in the papers over there. It always feels good that the people were pleased by the Oakcity Jazzband. Here's the link to the full pressarticle You have to read it in German to know what's it all about. ;-)

Adventsjazz im Rathaus Gladbeck (D)

Tomorrow we have to get up early to drive again to Gladbeck. This week the festival director sent us some pressarticles. Great to see!

Hamawé Roots Festival 2010

After our St.Cecilia party last weekend, where we shared a lot of memories of 2010, we searched the web for some pics of the Hamawé Roots Festival in Virton.
Here you can watch them all!

Slideshow

2010 Slideshow: The’s trip from Sweikhuizen (near Geleen, Limburg, The Netherlands) to 12 cities Düsseldorf, Dresden, Maastricht, Mülheim, Genk, Gladbeck, Raesfeld, Langerwehe (near Inden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), Maaseik, Heinsberg, Kreuzau and Kobbegem (near Relegem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium) was created by TripAdvisor. See another Germany slideshow. Create your own stunning free slideshow from your travel photos.

You Tube Dresden 2010

Surfing to recent video's of the Oakcity Jazzband we found this video at You Tube.

Nice to see again how busy it was in "der Center Galerie" at the Pragerstrasse in Dresden, it makes the memories alive!

@Ordix44: Rainer, Many thanks for uploading the video!

French Quarter Festival 2011

Today we called the manager of the international stage at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans.
Will our dreams come true?
Soon we'll know more about it!

Jazz In Rhinetown (Wageningen NL)

At the Saturday afternoon streetparades in Wageningen a lot of pics were taken from the bands and passers-by. We got an e-mail and a link to watch the album.
Click here

Kreuzau Press article

Always great to find fanmail in your mailbox!
This time Monika from Nideggen send us the press article about the festival in Kreuzau.
And who is in the picture again?

Kreuzau Festival

Already nine years in a row we are parading in Kreuzau (Germany) at their annual festival!
Our nice Lady photographer was there again, and she took pictures and videos from the Oakcity Jazzband!

Monika, Vielen Dank !

Here's a link to a slideshow with pictures from M.R.

Copenhagen

Raesfeld Wasserschloss pictures

At the website from 'Musik Landschaft Westfalen' we found some nice pictures of the performance of the Oakcity Jazzband at the sunday breakfast concert of this festival.
Unusual for us to play our music at a classical music festival.
But, we had a lot of fun together, and so the audience was on our hand very soon.

Sittard Koninginnedag 2010

Nice to find this out on the internet!
Harrie Hox, president of the commitee: "Looking at the many happy faces and spontaneous reactions , I think our intent is a hit here."
The Sittard Orange Committee wants to focus on the elderly residents on 'Koninginnedag' (Queens-day)and make this a tradition.

The visitors were treated an orange bitter and a delicacy.
Much attention went to the stalls with art and ancient crafts.

Also the performances of the Oak City Jazz Band from Maaseik (B) were popular.
Harrie Hox : "It was touching to see how many older people, especially the wheelchair dependent, were accompanied by (youth) volunteers."

Schlemmermarkt Wassenberg

Next Weekend we will be at the Schlemmermarkt in Wassenberg 2010.
Small, but beautiful.
You should come for a sophisticated night out!

You're Driving me Crazy

"Foto-arbeit" from Dusseldorf mailed us a photocompilation video of our Dixieshow at the openingsevening at the Dusseldorfer Jazzrally 2010.
He is also the maker of You Tube video "Oakcity Jazzband, Jazz Rally 2010, Düsseldorf" (with our tune "Tiger Rag" on stage)
Look at the timing of the pics in our tune "You're driving me crazy".
I love it!
Vitaliy, Vielen Dank wieder für deine Überraschung!

Gladbeck Marketplace

At the marketplace in Gladbeck we saw a little female victim to have some fun. She was filming us with her camera, but this was unexpected for her!
It was a pleasant surprise to us when we found her video in our mailbox some days later!
Madeleine, nous sommes très heureux avec cette vidéo, merçi beaucoup!

Up-side down, girl, you turn me

At noon we had a lot of fun in the centre of Gladbeck, convincing people to come to the "Maschinenhalle" to the jazzfestival.
We thougth we were at home in Eisden(B)with that same big hall en 2 mine lifts on this area.
At each stage change we got the guests outside, where the sun slowly sunk.
As usual the women get all our attention, but this time things almost went totally wrong.
Those great green eyes of that red-haired young lady put a spell on our banjo player...

Tiger Rag!

Great! On the openingsevening at the Düsseldorfer Jazzrally 2010 (D) we played Tiger Rag on the stage. Maurits (cl) made some arrangements to this tune for the Oakcity Jazzband.
We are very pleased dat somebody in the audience made a video of that en put it on YouTube! Dear "fotoarbeit", many thanks to share this. To everyone who read this, enjoy with us!

Jamsessie at the IBIS hotel Dresden

This is the video our drummer Franky took of the spontaneous jamsession at the IBIS Hotel in Dresden with musicians of Blue Note Six, Salt River, Lamarotte and -of course- the Oakcity Jazzband. After that session the members of the Oakcity Jazzband were called "die verrukte Belgiër" That means more or less the fools from Belgium. We are very honoured with that title.

The Oakcity Jazzband meets the Dutch Swing College Band!

The Oakcity Jazzband had the big honour and pleasure to share the stage with the icons of Dixieland "The Dutch Swing College Band" at the Jazz a/d Ruhr Festival in Mülheim (Germany) Together we played "Bill Bailey, won't you please come home. It's wonderful that we could do this!!

Dresden Jazz Parade 2010

And at 7:06 is the Oakcity Jazzband on your screen!
Many thanks to "Wellhausen" for making this shots.

Riverboatshuffle Dixieland Festival Dresden

Yesterday evening we came back home from the 40th International Dixieland Festival in Dresden Germany!
We are grateful, and very proud that we could represent our country, Belgium.

At the Hilton Hotel Dresden even the origin of the name of our band "Oakcity", "Maaseik", "Eichenstadt an der Maas", was explained by Dr. Jazz to the distinguished guests!

Especially we want to thank a lot our super-very-cool-lovely-young nanny, called Nancy!! She took 5 days off to drew her time with the Oakcity guys, and she did all what's possible to serve us, and lead us from gig to gig.

It's impossible to express in words all our impressions and the atmosphere at this great festival...
Here is our video with some pictures of the beautiful Dixie riverboatshuffle (wednesday May, 12) closed by a exaburant colourful firework show.




There will be more pictures soon!

Poster Hamawé Roots Festival, Mai 23 2010

Düsseldorfer Jazz Rally

After our gigs at the 40st International Dixieland Festival in Dresden, we are invited at the 18th Düsseldorfer Jazz Rally!
You can find their program on their website.

Dresden CD "The Great Jubilee"

Yesterday our trombone player Gaene tipped us this:
Did you know that they have awarded the Oakcity Jazzband for the first track on the Dresden Festival CD with "My Blue Heaven"?
The CD is titles as "The Great Jubilee"!

We are very thankful and very proud of that!

Hamawé Roots Festival, Virton (B) Mai 23, 2010

The program of this festival in Western style is beautiful!
Click here www.hamawe.be and be sure to watch the intro movie till the last second.
The one-liners of our trumpet player Hubaer are hilarious!

Coming Soon!

The excitement rises!
In 10 days we travel to the 40st International Dixielandfestival in Dresden.

From wednesday May 12 till Sunday May 16 we will parade at several locations in the centre of Dresden!
Did you know that they expect more than 500.000 visitors?
Did you know the Oakcity Jazzband is the one and only Belgian Band at this festival?!!

Interested? www.dixieland.de

The Next Generation

At Lieven his party a lot of great pictures were shot by Cateauke.
We made a story and a videocompilation of it.
Renate, Lieven thanks a lot for your hospitality!
Cateake, thanks again for your pictures!

Here you can watch the video.

Pictures!

Our first gigs of the new season already passed.
We got lot's of pictures from our fans that we like to share with you:
Ophoven 50. Birthday Party Nico (c) Jacques Lipkens + Mano Ruïz
Langerwehe Frühlingsfest (c) Monika Ramacher
Sweikhuizen Kunst in de Kamer (c) Piet Verhoeven
Kobbegem Opendoor Brewery Mort Subite (c) Marco Heylen

Visitor from South Africa

Hi! Just to tell we welcomed our first visitor from South Africa on our website yesterday!

Video from our rehearsal

We are very busy rehearsing new tunes! Maurits wrote us some great arrangements, and Hubaer took care of the recordings and distribution of our homework. :-)
Here you can watch a video with a soundtrack Tiger Rag and pics from our last rehearsal at Jo's place.

Lieke & Jo, thanks again for the pie, coffee and other liquids!

New Orleans French Quarter Festival

Unbelievable, but true! The organizer of the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans invited, the begin of march, the Oakcity Jazzband to perform at their International Stage from April 9-11. It's so sad that we can't plan the trip this year, but we'll stay in touch. Hopefully we will make it in 2011!

Jazz Rally Düsseldorf

Last week, our participation at the Jazz Rally in Düsseldorf was confirmed!
We will parade at the Marketplace and in the Alstadt on Friday May 21 at 18:30.
In 2006 we had a great performance at the Heinrich Heine Allee. A spectator send us a video afterwoods.
Here you can watch some moments of our Dixielandshow.

Dresden 2010

The program of the 40th international Dixieland Festival of Dresden is published.
We rehearse firmly on new songs and street acts to treat our audience in Dresden!
The Oakcity Jazzband starts on wednesday May 12 with a Riverboatshuffle at the Elbe.
We also play a Dixiepub in theaterhouse “The Old Slaughterhouse” and a Jazzband Ball at the Hilton Hotel.
Furthermore, open air events "Dresdner Jazzmeile" and "Dixieland Parade Platz Theater" are on our list.

More? www.dixieland.de

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The Oakcity Jazzband wishes you a Happy New Year full of music!

With different X-mas market pictures we made a video with some music. Trumpetsolo from Hubaer, Saxsolo from Maurits. Enjoy!