Gărâna Jazz Festival ( ro, Festivalul de jazz de la Gărâna) is a four day
music festival
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taking place annually in July in
Gărâna, southwestern
Romania. The Festival launched in 1996
and in the intervening years has raised the profile of Gărâna, a small village in the
Western Carpathians. The festival has featured an impressive lineup of high-class artists — including
Eberhard Weber,
Mike Stern,
Jan Garbarek,
Charles Lloyd,
Jean-Luc Ponty,
Victor Wooten,
Béla Fleck,
Stanley Jordan,
John Abercrombie,
Miroslav Vitouš (the original bassist of
jazz fusion
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band
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Magnus Öström
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Bugge Wesseltoft
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Lars Danielsson
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Avishay Cohen
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Nils Petter Molvær.
See also
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Jazz festivals in Romania
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References
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External links
Gărâna Jazz official homepage
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Jazz festivals in Romania
Music festivals established in 1997
Summer events in Romania
1997 establishments in Romania