DIXIE NIGHT

On Friday in April, as the organizer hopes, the second year of the international music festival in the style of swing and Dixieland music will take place, with meaningful and social spillovers into other areas of our lives as well. Participating artists and musicians come from surrounding neighboring countries and fulfill the imaginary idea of ​​belonging in Europe in the field of music and art as well. This musical genre in jazz music, also known as traditional jazz, has the principle of freedom of improvisation within agreed harmonic rules. The goal is to create a cheerful and positive point with a smile on the part of viewers and listeners. Maybe something we are looking for in Europe now.

https://www.ticketportal.sk/event/DIXIE-NIGHT?imedium=timeline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QXwpogDGis&list=RDGMEMTmC-2iNKH_l8gQ1LHo9FeQ&index=1

Fontaine Bleue is a young musician a band from Graz that brings a beautiful and melancholic breath of French chanson with swing elements. The young musicians covered the most famous compositions of Trenet, Piaf, Becoud, Aznavour and the like.
Marie Gebhart's unique and very graceful singing is supported by instrumentalists Jean Baptiste Rousseaux on trumpet, Yuliya Kupryianava-Rousseux on guitar and Konrad Waldert on double bass.

RBDIXIE FIVE from Poland, is a group composed of musicians from Warsaw and Tarnow. Their work focuses on compositions from the early jazz period and specifically from New Orleans, where Kong Oliver, Kid Ory, Louis Armstrong and similar other musicians worked. They create a concert program, but also street entertainment events, which they will convince us of on 25.4. on the square in front of the Old Market. The main personality is Roman Bartnicky – a multi-instrumentalist playing the sousaphone, the band also consists of Kajetan Drozd on banjo, Janusz Witko on clarinet, Mark Shepherd on trumpet and Róbert Szczerba on trombone.

Funny Fellows from Slovakia is a home-grown Bratislava musical group that presents Dixieland style with a Prespurác flavor and energetically creates its own solo parts right in front of the audience again and again and again. unrepeatable. The old time band, awarded at festivals abroad and in Slovakia, released a CD album called My Blue Heaven this year as well. During the festival evening, their concert will be enriched by the performance of Petr Lipa, which will be filled with the memory of Ella Fitzgerald, who died on 25.4. is celebrating his birthday.
https://www.funnyfellows.eu/sk/vitajte.alej

The Swing Lane are from Trieste, Italy and bring a swinging breeze with the flavor of the sea and a beautiful singing cantilena that adorns every improvisation of this young group of musicians. Playfulness and creativity combined with positive energy enriched with exceptional musical performances in solo parts. Jan Lovsin trumpet and vocals, Blaz Pahor piano, Simone Lanzi double bass, Franceaso Vattovaz drums.