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The 2011 Jazz Summer Festival in Krakow's Piwnica Pod Baranami Club and Other Venues. 

Krakow's 16th Jazz Summer Festival takes place from July 4th to July 31st, 2011 with the main venue in the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square) where jazz concerts are scheduled every night at 9 p.m. from July 4th through July 23rd. 

Program of the 2011 Jazz Summer Festival in Krakow.   

Note: things keep changing, so take into account, please, that the following program is liable to alterations.

July 3rd  

New Orleans' Sunday. 
From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. 
'
New Orleans' Parade' starts from the barbican (Barbakan) behind the Brama Florianska gate and proceeds down Florianska street to the Old Town's central Rynek Glowny square
Venue: Florianska street and the Grand Square. 
6 p.m. 
Open-air concerts of traditional jazz features Krakow's Jazz Band Ball Orchestra and the USA's Melve Houston plus Warsaw's band, Old Timers.
Venue: Rynek Glowny central square (the Grand Square). 
8 p.m. 
USA's Dixiland Band performs trad jazz.
Venue: Pod Jaszczurami club at 8 Rynek Glowny central square. 
9 p.m. 
Krakow's veteran jazzmen, Jazz Band Ball Orchestra, perform Dixieland music.
Venue: Harris Piano Jazz Bar at 28 Rynek Glowny central square. 

Krakow's Boba Jazz Band performs swing.
Venue: Ratuszowa restaurant in the cellar of the Town Hall Tower on Rynek Glowny central square. 

Krakow's veteran jazzmen, Old Metropolitan Band, perform New Orleans jazz. 
Venue: CK Browar at 6 Podwale street. 

Krakow's Beale Street Band with vocalist Jerzy Bozyk perform jazz standards. 
Venue: Pod Sloncem restaurant at 46 Rynek Glowny central square. 

July 4th  

9 p.m. 
Krakow's Adam Pieronczyk Trio plays jazz.
Venue: Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny and Sw. Anny street.

July 5th  
8 p.m.
USA's famous jazz pianist Chick Corea plays with Return To Forever IV quintet comprised of him plus bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Lenny White, guitarist Frank Gambale, and violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. 
Venue: Hala Wisly sports hall at 22 Reymonta street. 

9 p.m. 
Jazz concert features Krakow's top bass guitarist Krzysztof Scieranski and his guests. 
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny and Sw. Anny street.
 

July 6th  
9 p.m. 
Concert of traditional jazz features Krakow's Jazz Band Ball Orchestra and the USA's Melve Houston. 
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny and Sw. Anny street.
  

July 7th 
8 p.m. 
Jazz concert 'From the Capital of Culture to the Capital' features Germany's NDR Big Band, USA's Italian born vocalist Roberta Gambarini, Poland's top trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, pianist Vladyslav Sendecki, and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice. 
Venue: Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street. 

9 p.m.
 
Jazz concert features Krakow's vocalist and saxophonist Marek Stryszowski. 
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 8th  
9 p.m. 
Poland's Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski Quartet plays mainstream jazz

Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 
9 p.m. 
Poland's Tomek Grochot Quintet. 
Venue: Harris Piano Jazz Bar at 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square).

July 9th
9 p.m. 
Jazz concert features Austria's Vusa Mkhaye Band. 
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 10th 
9 p.m. 
Austria's Mariola Rabitsch Ensemble performs jazz.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 11th 
9 p.m. 
Lithuania's Kowno Dixilland Band performs trad jazz.  
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 12th 
9 p.m. 
Poland's Karolak, Smietana, Czerwinski Trio plays maistream jazz.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 13th 
9 p.m. 
Jazz concert features Australia's vocalist and saxophonist Bill Neal with Krakow's Jarek Smietana Band.   
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 14th 
9 p.m. 
Poland's Adam Kawonczyk Quartet. 
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 15th 
9 p.m. 
The Netherlands' Lijbaard/Brederode Duo
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny central square and Sw. Anny street. 

July 16th 
6 p.m. 
Open-air jazz concert features Poland's symphonic orchestra with conductor Krzesimir Debski and Krakow's top guitarist Jarek Smietana performing 'Spring Suite' at 6 p.m., followed by Grzegorz Piotrowski World Orchestra at 7 p.m., and The Sindicate ensemble at 8:30 p.m.. 
Venue: Maly Rynek square.
9 p.m. 

Poland's Jan Jarczyk Quartet. 
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.)
9 p.m. 
Poland's Ola Tomaszewska Quintet
Venue: Harris Piano Jazz Bar at 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square). 
10 p.m. 
Concert 'Milosz Jazz' features Krakow's vocalist Marek Balata and his guests. 
Venue: Manggha Museum at 26 Konopnickiej street. 

Jazz concert features The Netherlands' Buzz Bros Band. 
Venue: Pod Jaszczurami club at 8 Rynek Glowny central square. 

Poland's jazz quintet, New Bone. 
Venue: Piec'Art club at 12 Szewska street. 

Krakow's jazz guitarist Ryszard Styla. 
Venue: Centrala club at 4 Maly Rynek square. 

Israel's jazz ensemble, KK+ 
Venue: Mile Stone club at 6 Nadwislanska street (Hotel Qubus). 

July 17th 

9 p.m. 
The Netherlands' Buzz Bross Band. 
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 
9 p.m. 
Jazz concert 'The Madman Rambles Again' features Poland's jazz guitarist Rafal Sarnecki
Venue: Harris Piano Jazz Bar at 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square). 

July 18th 
9 p.m. 
Poland's Kuba Stankiewicz Quartet plus Maciej Sikala. 
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.)  

July 19th 
9 p.m. 
Krakow's Marek Balata Group
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.). 

July 20th 
9 p.m. 
Krakow's Boba Jazz Band performs swing.  
Venue: Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 21st 
9 p.m. 
Poland's Grzegorz Karnas Trio.  
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 
9 p.m. 
Jazz quintet Inner Spaces of Czech Republic’s trumpeter Stepanka Balcarowa and saxophonist Lubos Soukup, and pianist Vit Kristan plus Poland’s drummer Grzegorz Maslowski and bassist Max Mucha plays acoustic jazz. 
Venue: Harris Piano Jazz Bar at 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square). 

July 22nd 
9 p.m. 
Concert 'Songs of Europe' features Poland's acts Strzelczyk, Rodowicz, and Malys.  
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 23rd 
9 p.m. 
Jazz concert features Poland's saxophonist Maciej Sikala and bassist Piotr Lemanczyk plus Canada's drummer Tyler Hornby.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 
9 p.m. 
Jazz concert 'Eastern Dances' features Poland's Seb Bernatowicz Trio. 
Venue: Harris Piano Jazz Bar at 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square). 

July 24th 
9 p.m. 
Poland's ensemble, Kuba Pluzek Zgwintet, plays jazz. 
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 25th 
9 p.m. 
Jazz concert features Bernard Maseli Duo. 
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 26th 
9 p.m. 
Czech Republic's Pavel Wlosok Trio.   
Venue: Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 
July 27th 
9 p.m. 
Poland's RGG.  
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 28th 
9 p.m. 
Poland's jazz trio Wylezol, Baranski, Zyta. 
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 29th 
9 p.m. 
Fifth Side - International Female Jazz Band.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) 

July 31st 
8 p.m.
Jazz concert features The Roots Vladyslav Sendecki & Marek Balata Project.  
Venue: Courtyard of Krakow Radio hall at 22 Slowackiego street. 

8 p.m.
Romania's Nicolas Simion Group and Poland's Henryk Miskiewicz Quartet.   
Venue: Courtyard of Palac Pod Baranami at 27 Rynek Glowny central square. 
11 p.m.
Colombia's Sincopa Jazz Band plays at jazz ball.   
Venue: Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny central square. 

 

Note: Krakow’s pianist-vocalist Jurek Bozyk performs every day in Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at midnight.

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