Montreaux Jazz Festival opens

07/07/09 18:06 CET

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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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