GenevaLunch » Montreux Jazz Festival http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Surfeit of music choices: Montreux Jazz publishes programme earlyhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/surfeit-of-music-choices-montreux-jazz-publishes-programme-early/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/surfeit-of-music-choices-montreux-jazz-publishes-programme-early/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:21:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69160 GenevaLunch.com Big names don’t disappoint: Noel Gallagher, Sinead O’Connor, Van Morrison, Tony Bennett, Bobby Womack, Jane Birken Full Montreux programme, pdf LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – This wasn’t the plan, but the Montreux Jazz Festival has unveiled its music programme, just hours after Paleo, its lively younger cousin, posted its programme 17 April. A terse message arrived in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/surfeit-of-music-choices-montreux-jazz-publishes-programme-early/feed/ 0 Montreux strips down to the rich basicshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/16/montreux-strips-down-to-the-rich-basics/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/16/montreux-strips-down-to-the-rich-basics/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:57:14 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66729 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Montreux Jazz Festival likes to surprise and this year’s poster will startle more than one concert-lover. American photographer Greg Gorman has created the first MJF poster to feature a photographic image since 1967, the first year of the festival. This year’s poster, says Gorman, focuses on the contemplative experience of listening [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/16/montreux-strips-down-to-the-rich-basics/feed/ 0 Montreux Jazz Festival security “worrying”, after it ends on a sour note, say police (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/18/montreux-jazz-festival-security-worrying-after-it-ends-on-a-sour-note-say-police-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/18/montreux-jazz-festival-security-worrying-after-it-ends-on-a-sour-note-say-police-update/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:44:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59874 GenevaLunch.com MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND – Police Monday evening issued their full report on security and crimes during the Montreux Jazz Festival, following an earlier report on the last weekend of the hugely popular Festival which ended on a sour note, with 21 people detained by police in separate incidents between Friday evening and Sunday morning, 15-17 July. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/18/montreux-jazz-festival-security-worrying-after-it-ends-on-a-sour-note-say-police-update/feed/ 0 Green green green is the colour of your festivals this yearhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/12/green-green-green-is-the-colour-of-your-festivals-this-year/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/12/green-green-green-is-the-colour-of-your-festivals-this-year/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:57:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59670 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Are you a gas-burning road hog who loves festivals and concerts? You might have to change your ways this summer, with  environment and sustainable development the buzz words for Swiss festivals.   Montreux Jazz Festival, which runs to 16 July, is the first of the big summer festivals and it provides details [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/12/green-green-green-is-the-colour-of-your-festivals-this-year/feed/ 0 The Montreux Jazz Festivalhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/24/the-montreux-jazz-festival/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/24/the-montreux-jazz-festival/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:47:34 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=59199 GenevaLunch.com Here’s one of the country’s largest music festival, this year the likes of Ricky Martin, Carlos Santana, BB King, Youssou N’Dour, Sting and more during two weeks. Check also the free music all over town.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/24/the-montreux-jazz-festival/feed/ 0 Montreux Jazz Festival site hacked and programme spilledhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/12/montreux-jazz-festival-site-hacked-and-programme-spilled/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/12/montreux-jazz-festival-site-hacked-and-programme-spilled/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:17:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56460 GenevaLunch.com Old and loved coming to Montreux: BB King, Jimmy Cliff, Santana, Ricky Martin, George Benson and more Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The web site of the Montreux Jazz Festival was hacked Tuesday 12 April and the programme, a closely guarded secret, was published online two days ahead of the official announcement. The festival office has [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/12/montreux-jazz-festival-site-hacked-and-programme-spilled/feed/ 0 Sting to play in Montreux, tickets on sale 9 Marchhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/07/sting-to-play-in-montreux-tickets-on-sale-9-march/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/07/sting-to-play-in-montreux-tickets-on-sale-9-march/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:40:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=54945 GenevaLunch.com Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Sting will play at Montreux 11 July, the Montreux Jazz Festival announced Monday morning, with tickets to go on sale Wednesday 9 March at 10:00. The announcement about his Symphonicity tour concert comes well ahead of the programme announcement for the rest of the festival. Sting will perform with a symphony [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/07/sting-to-play-in-montreux-tickets-on-sale-9-march/feed/ 0 The world’s largest music box to hold 5,000 hours of Montreux gemshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/11/the-worlds-largest-music-box-to-hold-5000-hours-of-montreux-gems/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/11/the-worlds-largest-music-box-to-hold-5000-hours-of-montreux-gems/#comments Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:33:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=50991 GenevaLunch.com EPFL’s new media centre has exclusive research, educational use rights to make digital record of musical treasure Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Ten thousand recording tapes will now become the Montreux Jazz Festival (MJF) library, “the largest testimony of live music recorded at the same place (more than 4,000 bands played in Montreux), both in audio [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/11/the-worlds-largest-music-box-to-hold-5000-hours-of-montreux-gems/feed/ 2 Montreux Jazz presents its 2011 posterhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/03/montreux-jazz-presents-its-2011-poster/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/03/montreux-jazz-presents-its-2011-poster/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:09:29 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=50688 GenevaLunch.com Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Organizers of the Montreux Jazz Festival released the poster for the 45th edition of the world-renowned music festival 2 December. The poster is designed by Swiss artist Francis Baudevin, an artist from Bulle, canton Vaud, who lives and works in Lausanne. The Festival breaks with tradition  to choose an abstract painting [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/03/montreux-jazz-presents-its-2011-poster/feed/ 1 Daniel Cho, performer at Montreux Jazz Festival drownshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/08/daniel-cho-performer-at-montreux-jazz-festival-drowns/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/08/daniel-cho-performer-at-montreux-jazz-festival-drowns/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:48:23 +0000 Jared Bloch http://genevalunch.com/?p=44631 GenevaLunch.com Regina Spektor, and former Katy Perry band-member dies in Montreux Montreux, Switzerland – The announcement of the death of Daniel Cho, a member of Regina Spektor’s band, came from the singer during her appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Spektor, appearing at the Stravinsky Hall, went on stage with two other band members, looking very [...]

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