Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival is far more than the evocative name of one of the world’s major cultural events. Since its beginnings in 1967, the Festival has developed its palette of activities considerably. Today the Festival is involved in an array of endeavors, including a Foundation encouraging the next generation of musicians, the Montreux Jazz Cafés, and Montreux Sounds, the largest audiovisual concert archives in the world.

Founded by Claude Nobs in 1967, over the years the Montreux Jazz Festival has become an unmissable event for music fans in Switzerland and around the world. Its stages have been graced by all of music’s greats, from Miles Davis to Ray Charles and from David Bowie to Prince. Whereas Jazz constitutes the Festival’s historic core, other styles of music were quickly integrated into the Festival, bound together by a common thread of mutual curiosity and enthusiasm. Having made its reputation with its ambitious programming choices, the Montreux Jazz Festival offers musicians an ideal platform and an intimate setting for the duration of its two weeks.