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Garana Jazz Festival at Garana Jazz Festival
Courtesy of Horea Rares Pastina | Posted on June 25, 2015
Where
When
Thu, July 9, 2015
17:00
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Musicians
Enzo Favata
saxophone, sopranoTigran Hamasyan
pianoGonzalo Rubalcaba
pianoRalph Towner
guitarStanley Clarke
bassSnarky Puppy
band / ensemble / orchestraVlatko Stefanovski
guitarBireli Lagrene
guitarRenaud Garcia-Fons
bassAbout
Hidden in the heart of the Western Carpathians, the small village of Garana — also called Wolfsberg by the Bohemian colonists who have inhabited it until some 30 years ago — has developed, during the last decades, into an international artists’ colony — hosting, for the 19th time this year, Eastern Europe's only open-air jazz festival, a kind of contemporary Woodstock. Instead of diminishing its appeal, the capricious climate and the special location seem to fuel the participants’ ambition to belong to the "chosen", if not few, ones.
Throughout its relatively short history, the festival has featured an impressive lineup of high-class artists —including Eberhard Weber, Mike Stern, Jan Garbarek, Charles Lloyd, Jean-Luc Ponty, Stanley Jordan, John Abercrombie, Miroslav Vitous, Zakir Hussain, Magnus Ostrom, Bugge Wesseltoft, Lars Danielsson, Avishay Cohen and Nils Petter Molvaer—becoming one of the most significant musical events of its kind, attended by thousands of jazz lovers who travel each summer to the mountains, ignoring the risk of rain and the chilly nights. ...