The Kitchen's Cookin'

Sonny Rollins by Jimmy Katz (135x100 cms, edition 1)

Connecting the big five-days exhibition at the yearly North Sea Jazz Festival to smaller art shows as a part of the North Sea Round Town festival in Rotterdam has resulted in a few hot new events for both music and art lovers.

This year we will host an exhibition at the five star Manhattan Hotel Rotterdam with the paintings of jazz junkie Bo Woody Winter and photos by Jimmy Katz, the best contemporary jazz photographer in the world. On June 26th the show at the Manhattan will be opened during the monthly Wine Club of the hotel.

Eric Dolphy by Bo Woody Winter -
acrylic and oil on canvas

Bo Woody Winter will also exhibit at The Kitchen, the bar and restaurant of The Student Hotel, due to his last years' contacts with the management of the restaurant. We added an exhibition an exhibition of the Italian jazz photographs by Joke Schot and Rosaria Macri (Schot & Roos) and delivered a steaming program of jazz artists to perform during the exhibitions. You can expect the top of the Dutch jazz scene in The kitchen so we don't exaggerate saying The Kitchen will be cookin'.

The Kitchen's program will be a jewel in the crown of North Sea Round Town this year. Especially for the opening of the show on June 28th Music Inspired Art organized a boat trip to Bo Woody Winter's studio, two exhibitions in the city and the opening of the exhibition at The Kitchen. Trip, including a guide, drinks, jazz dinner, DJ at the opening and a concert by the Reinier Baas Trio (Edison Winner 2013) will only cost 99 euros (reservations till June 15th: marc@marcorganiseert.nl). Both the Manhattan Hotel and The Student Hotel will accomodate artists that will be performing at North Sea Jazz. Big chance to meet an artist there when visiting the exhibitions. We hope that some of the artists will join the jam sessions at The Kitchen during the festival nights. The Kitchen will be open then till 4 AM while trumpet player Michael Varekamp will host jam sessions.

The floating H2otel will show the photographs of local Richard Sinte Maartensdijk who has been shooting at the North Sea Jazz Festival for several years.

Co-operation between the venues, the programmers at North Sea Round Town, and Music Inspired Art result in a program that enhanced the quality of the festival that heats up Rotterdam for the North Sea Jazz Festival. You can check the complete program of North Sea Round Town at www.northsearoundtown.com or pick up the festival brochure all over town in Rotterdam.