Montreaux Jazz Festival opens

The Montreux Jazz Festival has just opened in Switzerland. The glamourous location on the shore of Lake Geneva is expected to attract more than 200,000 fans of a wide variety of music styles.

This year the festival managed to pull off a coup -Prince is due to close the festival. Naturally the 8,000 tickets sold out within 8 minutes, jamming the main computer.

The Dave Matthews band are at the festival, promoting their new album “Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King”. He says that European-style festivals are starting to catch on in the States.

The festival runs until 18th July.

For more information about the festival see:

http://www.montreuxjazz.com

For more information about the Dave Matthews Band see:

http://www.davematthewsband.com

For more information about Prince see:

http://www.lotusflow3r.com

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tags: Festival, Music, Switzerland