All performers who give concerts on the large Kaunas Jazz stage agree it is a venue of rhytmic and cheerful music where people can not only enjoy fantastic music but move their legs too.

That is not a challange to a collective such as Kaunas Dixieland Dixxband, a band carrying a flag of vivacious traditional jazz for twenty years already.

DixXband  prepared a special program this year to mark the band's anniversary. The dixieland music transferring the audience to the streets of New Orleans and Chicago, the cradle of traditional jazz, swing, and swing-styles.

You can witness Dixieland bands and jazz performers on the streets and bridges in many places all over the world. This music has been created for freedom and it thus sounds the best in open spaces, nature, cafes and town squares, granting the impression of being free for all listeners.

Kaunas Dixieland DixXband has these members: Vaiva Venslovienė (vocal), Raimundas Arnašius (trumpet), Tomas Razmus (tenor / soprano, saxophone), Remigijus Terminas (trombone), Mantas Liutikas (keyboard instruments), Mindaugas Paulikas (guitar), Simonas Remeika (tuba/boss guitar) and Evaldas Andziulis (drums). The band is happy to have their own regular audience and say that their main goal is to preserve and promote traditional jazz. 

Kaunas Dixieland DixXband is highly revered and welcome not only by Lithuanian but also foreign jazz festival lovers. Their performances include participation in tens of jazz festivals and they have garnered great appreciation from the audience. The band had its first performance in 2003 at Kaunas State Philharmonic Society. Not long after it, the band recorded its first CD titled A dose of the Right Music at the Lithuanian National Television and Radio. In 2008, the band recorded their second album titled SingSwing at the jazz festival held in Birštonas.

Kaunas Dixieland DixXband won the Grand Prix for performing the Anthem of Europe in the style of New Orleans Jazz (arranged by Rimantas Giedraitis) and the public appreciation at the Euro Jazz Festival and Competition held in 2007.