Pre-festival day

Special greetings for the jubilee from

Ricciotti Ensemble - Forty-member-student-orchestra, The Netherlands
A four-piano-concert - Lora Dimitrova (piano), Bulgaria, Andrew Watson (piano), UK, Orlin Dimitrov (piano), Bulgaria, Maria Delivicheva (piano), Bulgaria, Ivaylo Delivichev (percussion), Bulgaria

Big Band of the Bulgarian National Radio conducted by Yanko Miladinov and guest Denise Jannah (vocal), The Netherlands and Petar Salchev (vocal), Bulgaria
Milcho Leviev (piano), Bulgaria, Viki Almazidu (vocal), Greece, Dimitar Shanov (bass), Bulgaria
Janice Harrington trio, USA - Janice Harrington (vocal), Dylan Vaughn (guitar, bass, vocal), Tommie Harris ( drums, vocal), Simon Grey (piano)
Jerimiah Marques & The Blue Aces, UK - Jerimiah Marques (vocal), Pete Nash (piano and slide guitar), Lewis Fielding (guitar), Mike Thorne (drums)

Antoni Donchev (piano), Simeon Shterev (flute), George Donchev (double bass), Atanas Popov (drums), Bulgaria
Christoph "Boogie Wolf" Steinbach (piano), Austria
Camelia Todorova and "They-instrumental" band, Bulgaria - Camelia Todorova (vocal), Yassen Velchev (piano), Ivaylo Zvezdomirov (bass guitar), Venko Poromanski (drums) and vocal trio "Camelettes"
Yehya Khalil band, Egypt - Yehya Khalil (leader, drums), Mohamed Mohamed (keyboard), Adel Wasef (guitar), Ahmed Nazmi (guitar), Basam Sheiha (kanon), Atef Hamouda (percussion), Khaled Abdel Fattah (percission), Wael Shehata (percussion), Mona Khier (vocal), Manal Osman (vocal), Khamis Hanafy (percussion), Ezz el din Esmat (keyboard)

For Free Hands - Vladimir Karparov (saxophone), Bulgaria, Andreas Brunn (guitar), Germany, Dimitris Christides (drums), Greece, Jonathan Robinson (bass), USA
Praful and Mirta, The Netherlands - Praful (sax, flute, vocal), Mirta Junco (vocal), Afra Mussawisade (percussion), Renato Steba (bass), Martin Denev (keyboards), Arno van Nieuwenhuize (drums)
Jazz-x-Change, Germany - Thomas Siffling (trumpet), August- Wilhelm Scheer (baritone Saxophone), Werner Seifert (piano), Thomas Hiedepriem (electric bass), Olivier Strauch (drums)
Dirty Purchase and Amalia, Bulgaria - Amalia Georgieva (vocal), Emil Minchev (vocal), Hristoslav Galileev-Galio (el. bass) (el. bass), Lyudmil Stoynev (keyboards), Vasil Enchev (saxophone), Nikolay Stanev (drums), Georgi Marholev (guitar), Michael Yossifov (trumpet), Vili Stoyanov (trombone)

Pavel Ryba & Mind the Steps, Czech Republic - Pavel Ryba (guitar), Peter Valashek (saxophone, clarinet, vocal), Jiri Kollman (drums, percussion)
Vasil Petrov, Maria Taneva-Mery (vocals) and Angel Zaberski quartet, Bulgaria - Angel Zaberski (piano), Michael Yossifov (trumpet), Dimitar Shanov (bass), Dimitar Dimitrov (drums)
El Macareno sextet, Spain - El Macareno (quitar), Nuria Lopez (flute), Jorge del Pino (dancer), Juan Antonio Claus (singer), Paco Cortes (cajon), Juan Masana (bass)
Lucas Van Merwijk and Drums United, The Netherlands - Lucas van Merwijk (drums, timbales, cajon), Pape Thiam (talking drums, vocals), Aly N'Diaye Rose (sabar, djembe, vocals), Gerardo Rosales (conga's, timbales, bongo's, maracas), Nils Fischer (conga's, timbales, bongo's), Gianna Tam (percussion, vocals, dance), Nuria Manglano (percussion, vocals, Flamenco dance), DJ Colin Spectre (DJ, samples), Niti Ranjan Biswas (percussion)

Big Band conducted by Villy Kazasyan and guest vocal Hilda Kazasyan, Bulgaria
Wlodek Pawlik trio, Poland - Wlodek Pawlik (piano), Pawel Panta (double bass), Cezary Konrad (drums)
Francesco Buzzurro Quartet, Italy - Francesco Buzzurro (guitar), Giovanni Buzzurro (el.bass), Sebastiano Alioto (drums), Riccardo Randisi (piano)
Djabe, Hungary - Barabas Tamas (guitar), Egerhazi Attila (guitar), Sipos Andras (percussion), Kovacs Frenc (violin, trumpet), Banai Szilard (drums), Kovacs Zoltan (keyboards)

Shape International Big Band, Belgium
Nona Yotova Band, Bulgaria - Nona Yotova (vocal), Dani Milev (guitar), Ivan Lechev (violin, guitar), Kalin Veliov (percussion), Michael Shishkov (guitar), Martin Doykin (bass), Valchan Valchanov (oboe)
Hot Four Creole Jazzband, Germany - Horst Aussenhof (clarinet, bass-sax), Joachim Lusch(cornet), Bernhard Sperrfechter (banjo,guitar), Jens Hunstein (alto-sax)
Theodosii Spasov, Bulgaria and Fonixx, Swiss - Theodosii Spasov (caval), Raphael Zehnder, (saxophone), Jan Trosch (guitar), Michael Wertmuller, (drums)

The organizers reserve the right to make changes in the Programme