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Mimi BLAIS (CDN) – piano

After completing her classical training at the Qu�bec Conservatory of Music and McGill University in Montreal, Mimi left the beaten path to discover MUSIC. Her career has been guided by passion and whim where classical, folk, jazz, modern, blues, tango, and ragtime all blend together. Mimi's passion for ragtime music has led her to travel across the United States and Canada, and it has even taken her to Belgium and Hungary (to the "Bohém" Festivals in 1993 and 2004) where she received one standing ovation after another. She was nicknamed The New Queen Of Ragtime already in 1990. Mimi was invited to perform for the Olympic Celebration in 1996 and has acted and played the piano in several plays at famous theatres of Montreal.

Mimi Blais has eight CD's so far. As a musical performer, composer, arranger, writer, comedian and singer whose imagination knows no bounds, Mimi Blais is in high demand because of her tremendous talent and joyful personality.

Witty, colorful, poetic, energetic, romantic, extraordinary, unbelievable... words Mimi's fans around the world use to describe the unique performances of the undisputed "Queen of Ragtime." One of the most highly trained and gifted pianists in ragtime, Montreal's Mimi Blais is also the comedy star of the genre... a pianist to be seen!
Nan Bostick (niece and biographer of Charles N. Daniels)

www.mimiblais.com

MP3: Mimi Blais (piano) – Ed's Running Rag (Ittzés Tamás)

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OTHERS ABOUT US
I must confess you, your band is the best oldtime jazzband, which I've ever heard in my life. You do a real music with heart. Each of you had me deep impressed.
(Dai Kimoto, CH, 2010)

The music the Bohém played in Davos was excellent. Tineke and I found the last evening in Steigenberg the best performance.
(Willem Peul, NL, 2010)

I want to tell you that I appreciated very much your band which is a perfect balance of traditional jazz, entertainment and music from your country with plenty of humour. And this combination by excellent musicians.
(Michel Bastide, F, 2010)

A tight-knit, disciplined, and intensely swinging ensemble. [...] The arrangements by Ittzés are both stylistically true and brilliantly inventive.
(CBMR Digest, Chicago, USA)

Temperament, Komik und Show zogen sich als verträgliche Einheit wie ein roter Faden durch den spektakulären Auftritt.
(Die Union, Deutschland)

Die Ungarn zeigten eine unbändige Spielfreunde, gepaart mit viel Humor und zurückhaltenden Show-Einlagen.
(Harz Kurier, Deutschland)

Mit ihrem temperamentvollen, mitreissenden Ragtime spielte sich die ungarische Bohém Ragtime Jazzband in die Herzen der Zuhörer und hinterliess einen glänzenden Eindruck. [...] Sie sind eine perfekt aufeinander abgestimmte Band, in der jeder sein Instrument virtuos beherrscht. Und das zeigte sich nicht nur imgemeinsamen harmonischen Zusammenspiel, sondern auch in den zahlreichen wunderschönen Soli.
(Kölner Rundschau, Deutschland)

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