Riverboat Jazz Festival is one Europe's biggest festivals featuring traditional jazz. The five-day festival draws about 50 000 music lovers and 70 bands and soloists to the small picturesque town of Silkeborg in Midtjylland. In addition to the Spirit Of New Orleans, this year's lineup includes for example Lillian Boutt & Her Musical Friends, Julie O’Hara Rifftet, Luiz Diaz y los 5 del Son, Sammy Rimington Band, Second Line Jazzband, Jive Aces, and The Brasshoppers.
The Spirit Of New Orleans, also as known as SONO, has performed on most major Finnish festivals and clubs (Pori Jazz, Imatra Big Band Festival, Linna-Jazz, Baltic Jazz, Korpo Sea Jazz, Ruskaswing, Ylls Jazz Blues, Kalott Jazz & Blues, Jazz by The Sea, Otava Happy Jazz, etc.) and on festivals in Switzerland, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, and Fiji. The band has featured international soloists including Tricia Boutt, Yolanda Windsay, Leroy Jones, Mari Watanabe, Miriam Aïda, and Eeppi Ursin. SONO has released two recordings: Bogalusa Strut (2002) and Some Of These Days (2006); the latest one will come out in the fall of 2009.
Spirit Of New Orleans Helsinki
featuring Leroy Jones and Eeppi Ursin
Riverboat Jazz Festival, Silkeborg, Denmark
Thu 25.6.2009
21:00
Rampelys
Fri 26.6.2009
17:00
Havneteltet
Sat 27.6.2009
20:00
Bindslevs Plads
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