JAZZ PUNT BIG BAND
Bevk Square, Nova Gorica
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The Jazz Punt Big Band with their art director Matija Mlakar has been performing since November 2005. During this time, the members of the band have shared their love of music at more than a hundred concerts in Slovenia and abroad. They represented Slovenia in Greece, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Czechia and Italy. Their two most important concerts took place at international big band competitions in Budapest, Hungary (2013), and Česká Kamenice, Czechia (2015). In both contests, they won the gold medal and obtained the highest number of points among all the bands. In 2015, on the occasion of their tenth anniversary, they carried out an extremely successful project called 'A Tribute to The Beatles', while this year they prepared 'Groovy night', which won the listeners' hearts with cover versions of numerous pop, soul and funk hits. Their repertoire includes songs of world-famous artists, such as Phil Collins, Aretha Franklin, Norah Jones, Bruno Mars, Stevie Wonder etc.
Alongside the vocalist Tanja Srednik, who has been working with the band since 2010, the outstanding Karin Zemljič will also be joining them on stage as a guest.
The Program:
Average white band: Pick up the pieces
The Doors: Soul kitchen
Bob Mintzer: New Rochelle
Jennifer Hudson: Love you I do
Norah Jones: Don't know why
Aretha Franklin: You make me feel like a natural woman
The Zutons: Valerie
Morcheeba: Rome wasn't built in a day
Stevie Wonder: I wish
Phil Collins: Against all odds
Stevie Wonder: Isn't she lovely
Christina Aguilera: Ain't no other man
Bruno Mars: Uptown funk
Bruno Mars: Runaway baby
Stevie Wonder: Higher ground
Aretha Franklin: Chain of fools
Liv Warfield: Why do you lie
Free entrance.
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