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If you are in Koh Samui or the area and like Jazz then check out the the yearly Samui Internationl Jazz Fest Sept 18th to the 25th, 2011.

For more info check out Samui Jazz Festival

In 2004 they opened a great BLUES club called Coco Blues in Koh Samui, Thailand

It was great!

They had a real good house band and also started to book and bring great bands in from the U.S. Blues circuit, bands like Jackie Pane who brought his own backup band.
They also put on some great music festivals each year around the Island.
The second year bringing in such great acts as UB40, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Blues Brothers, Ike Turner, Lonnie Brooks, John Lee Hookers daughter a

No More Coco Blues

nd her awesome band, as well as new acts like Chris King, it was great.
But like all good things it must come to end.
I heard there was a lot of mis-management with funds etc. and all the other rock & roll things that happen to suck money.
It grew and grew and all local expats were happy to go to a decent place that actually built a club with a stage for live blues bands.
Great while it was there but now
we are all left with the BLUES!!
Hopefully someone else will pick up the slack as the place use to be pack and sold out for many years.

We only hope someone else will bring in great blues band, blues guitar, harp, sax music here in Koh Samui and replace the COCO BLUES Bar as Samui needs much more places like this once was!

Keep on playing those Samui Blues!