On Friday at 8 pm, the festival weekend immediately starts with a highlight for all Smooth Jazz fans: With Clydene Jackson (vocals) and Oliver C. Brown (percussion), NILS will present two musicians from his original US band as special guests on the stage.

In addition we were able to engage a band – Lutz Deterra (keyboards), Martin Weiss (guitar), Günter Asbeck (bass) and Andy Pilger (drums) – that already toured through Europe with Stars of the U.S. jazz scene like Nelson Rangell, Nathan East, Rick Braun, Peter White, Eric Marienthal and Gabriela Anders.