Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux Jazz Festival The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada's Montreal International Jazz Festival. The Montreux Jazz Festival was founded in 1967 by Claude Nobs, Géo Voumard and René Langel with considerable help from Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün of Atlantic Records. The festival was first held at Montreux Casino. It lasted for three days and featured almost exclusively jazz artists. The
Fairmont Le Montreux Palace in August in Zurich with over 500 guests. Fairmont Le Montreux Palace won the Public prize for the film "Stille Post" by the cineaste Alejandro Gasser. 2012 - During the Tennis Davis Cup in Fribourg in February 2012, Stanislas Wawrinka and Roger Federer stayed at Fairmont Le Montreux Palace. Katie Melua, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bobby McFerrin, Nile Rodgers, Herbert Grönemeyer, Lana del Rey, Anastacia are just a few artists who were guests at Fairmont Le Montreux Palace during the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 2012. 2013 - During the Montreux Jazz Festival we had the pleasure to welcome several