Montreux Jazz Festival

4-19 July 2008

Music lives, and at the Montreux Jazz Festival you can feel its pulse. When it was first held in 1967, the festival lasted three days and concentrated exclusively on jazz, but it has since grown into a gigantic international spectacle. Over 16 days, musicians – from newcomers to legends – from all over the world come and go. Musical forms other than jazz have long since become part of the celebration and now high-class musicians representing just about every musical form produce a colourful mixture of sounds.

So visitors to the festival can expect not only some outstanding concerts but also some unforgettable experiences. As every year, top acts will be performing in the Miles Davis Hall and the Stravinski Auditorium, but there will also be over 300 free concerts by artists of all types, staged daily from noon until late at night at various venues. The "Off-Festival" also includes the popular musical cruises on the samba, salsa, gospel and dance ships, which invite festival-goers to take part in a floating carnival.

UBS is proud to have been one of the Festival's main sponsors for more than 20 years.

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