The Montreux Jazz festival has received a “favourite festival” award at the International Live Music Conference (ILMC), considered the Oscars of Europe’s live music industry.
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El Festival de Jazz de Montreux gana el mayor premio internacional de música en directo
The Montreux Jazz Festival received the prestigious ILMC Arthur Award, given by the public and industry professionals, at a ceremony in London. It is the second time it has won the prize: the last was in 2011.
The organisers of the Swiss festival, which has been running for 55 years, said they were proud to have fought off competition from other big name events such as Reading & Leeds (UK), British Summer Time Hyde Park (UK), Primavera Sound (Spain), Hurricane (Germany) and Roskilde (Denmark).
On Instagram, Mathieu Jaton, director of Montreux Jazz, thanked the public and his peers in the live music industry who voted for them.
“We will continue to push the boundaries of what a music festival can be and we look forward to welcoming you all to Montreux this summer, from June 30 to July 15,” he added.
Last year’s Montreux Jazz Festival saw a return to the large crowds of the pre-Covid years, with more than 250,000 people attending.
The Montreux Jazz Festival was founded in the summer of 1967 by Swiss chef and tourism promoter Claude Nobs, who transformed his love of jazz into the seed of a global phenomenon along the shores of Lake Geneva.
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Nobs died on Thursday after sustaining injuries from a fall while cross-country skiing alone in the village of Caux close to his home overlooking Montreux and Lake Geneva on Christmas Eve. He was flown to hospital and fell into a coma from which he never recovered. On its website, the festival said Nobs’ death came by…
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The collection featured 60 black and white photos from 1964-2004 of some of the leading jazz musicians past and present both on stage and in their everyday lives.
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