From 24 January is the new musical theater performance; Café du Monde in more than 30 theaters throughout the Netherlands.

Each region, country and time has their own songs of life. These songs have in common that they describe both the joyful and melancholy moments that shape everyday life. Also songs about universal themes such as love and heart break, sung with great intensity and devotion. Café du Monde is a musical production in which the most popular songs of life from over the whole world are performed.
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Watch the exclusive interview with Joke Bruijs here.

The legendary band Nueva Manteca is back! With their vital and virtuous music this band has been an essential part of the international Latin Jazz scene since 25 years. After 12 trailblazing records and countless concerts all over the world the band is now back in all its glory – with a new and breathtaking latin jazz sound. Nueva Manteca has reinvented itseld with a fresh line-up from the Netherlands, Cuba, Germany and Venezuela.

“One of the most prolific ensembles of the latin jazz world. Nueva Manteca is the most representative band of Afro-Cuban Jazz in Europe“ – Walter Consuegra (chronic about Latin Jazz, March 2018)

The kick-off for the new Nueva Manteca formation was a successful tour in Colombia in 2018. The new album is expected in 2019.

Line up

Oscar Cordero – trumpet
Ben Van den Dungen – sax
Samuel Ruiz – bass
Marc Bischoff – piano
Liber Torriente – drums
Nils Fischer – percussion

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the new trailer of MISSA!

Missa is a new project of Musica Extrema and tells the story of the origin of Holland. It is a original composition in the form of a mess and has eleven parts. The music is a cross-over of classical music, jazz and worldmusic. The Dutch lyrics were written by Jan Rot, and the story is narrated by Marga van Praag.

Missa  is a musical story about the battle against the water of the Dutch people,  the emergence of the cities in Holland with the notorious nobles and aristocrats ,  Jacoba van Beieren,  the civil wars and the terrible disaster and  major flooding  named as the St Elisabeth flood

Watch the video here:

Missa is a new project of Musica Extrema and  tells the story of the origin of Holland. . It is a original composition in the form of a mess and has eleven parts. The music is a cross-over of classical music, jazz and worldmusic. The Dutch lyrics were written by Jan Rot, and the story is narrated by Marga van Praag.

Missa  is a musical story about the battle against the water of the Dutch people,  the emergence of the cities in Holland with the notorious nobles and aristocrats ,  Jacoba van Beieren,  the civil wars and the terrible disaster and  major flooding  named as the St Elisabeth flood

An orchestra (Música Extrema), four vocalists (Muriel van Dinteren, Claudia Patacca, Erik Slik, Jan Willem Baljet), a choir and a narrator (Marga van Praag) is filling the stage of some beautiful churches and venues in Holland.

For more information and tickets click here

The Society of Associated Musicians and Raconteurs named as ‘The Society’.
The Society is an imaginative band in which the listener is taken to the cinematic thirties and the glory days of jazz. The time when jazz was the most important side issue of life.
The thirties made for the flourishing of this exciting music and delivered a variety of rock-solid bands such as the orchestra of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine.. Characterful tenorsaxophone players such as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young and Paul Gonzalves were embraced by the public.
The Society is a reaction of the abstraction of contemporary modern jazz of these days. The Society makes music with a large dose of nostalgia but still plays this music with the urgency of today.
This summer The Society will recording their first album. T.B.A.

Ben van den Dungen Quartet is going on tour in Poland.
This summer the group are going to give some concerts in Poland. The Ben van den Dungen Quartet was invited by the Jazzfestival in Krakau. After there performance in Krakau they will give a couple of other concerts in some clubs in Poland. The concert dates are:
13 & 14 July – Summer Jazzfestival in Krakau
15 July – Summer music salon in Elbing
16 July – Gutshaus in Ramin
17 July – Stara Rzeznia in Szczecin