Gărâna Jazz Festival
Gărâna Jazz Festival is a music festival taking place annually in Gărâna, Romania. International four days jazz festival in the Romanian Mountains, it takes place each summer, in July. It is the biggest Open Air festival in Romania, cca. 10000 people in the audience.
Gărâna Jazz Festival | |
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Genre | Jazz |
Dates | July |
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Years active | 1997–present |
Website | www.garana-jazz.ro |
History
Gărâna Jazz Festival takes place every year since 1997 in the Gărâna Village (150 km by car from Timișoara airport, 20 minutes by car from Reşiţa train station).It is hidden in the heart of the Western Carpathians, the small village of Gărâna — 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 artist colony — hosting, 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 increase the ambition of the participants 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 Öström, Bugge Wesseltoft, Lars Danielsson, Avishay Cohen and Nils Petter Molvær—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.
2015 main stage line-up
9 July (Day One)
- Enzo Favata Quartet
- Nighthawks
- Tigran Hamasyan Trio
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Volcán Projekt
10 July (Day Two)
- Arifa
- Adam Bałdych & Paweł Kaczmarczyk
- Ralph Towner & Wolfgang Muthspiel
- Vlatko Stefanovski Trio
11 July (Day Three)
- Renaud Garcia-Fons
- Sebastian Spanache Trio
- Biréli Lagrène Gypsy Project
- Stanley Clarke Quartet
12 July (Day Four)
- Stucky / Doran / Studer / Tacuma – Hendrix Project
- Snarky Puppy
- Stefano Battaglia Trio
2014 line-up
- Adam Bałdych Imaginary Quartet
- Andy Sheppard Trio Libero
- Dave Douglas The Riverside Quartet
- Marius Neset Quartet
- Elena Mîndru Finnection
- Joey DeFrancesco Trio
- Ulf Wakenius Band
- Arve Henriksen Band
- Pedro Negrescu Trio
- The Crimson ProjeKCt
- Kimmo Pohjonen
- Stian Westerhus
- Mike Stern / Bill Evans Band
- Tom Harrell Colors of a Dream
- JazzyBIT
2013 line-up
- Ansamblul de Percuţie Prezent
- Bill Frisell – Big Sur Sextet
- Charles Lloyd – Sangam
- Peter Sarosi – Azara
- Irina Popa & The Sinners
- Arild Andersen Trio
- Luiza Zan Project
- John Surman – Valhalla
- Peter Wertheimer Quartet
- Paweł Kaczmarczyk Audiofeeling Band
- Dainius Pulauskas Band
- Bugge Wesseltoft solo
- In The Country
- Jazzybit
- Bugge Wesseltoft & Joe Claussell & İlhan Erşahin - The Electric Trio
- Nicolas Simion Trio feat. Eugen Gondi & Sorin Romanescu
- Magnus Öström
2012 line-up
- Iordache
- Sławek Jaskułke
- John Scofield's Hollowbody Band
- Adrian Gaspar Trio
- Mario & The Theachers
- Portico Quartet
- Edgar Knecht Quartet
- Brink Man Ship feat. Nils Petter Molvær
- Tord Gustavsen Quartet
- Dave Holland Prism
- Kuara feat Trygve Seim
- Emy Drăgoi & Jazz Hot Club De Romania
- Eugen Gondi Trio
- Bugge Wesseltoft & Friends
- Carlos Bica – Azul
- Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos
2011 line-up
- Avishai Cohen Trio
- Hiromi Uehara Trio Project feat. Anthony Jackson & Simon Phillips
- Lars Danielsson Quartet
- Jan Bang & ...The Poppies From Kandahar
- Nik Bärtsch ‘s Ronin
- Mathias Eick Quintet
- Frøy Aagre Quartet
- Food feat. Christian Fenesh
- Frederika Krier Quartet
- Jazzpospolita
- Horea Crişovan Quartet
- Liviu Butoi Quartet feat. Luiza Zan
- Mike Godoroja & The Blue Spirit
- Marius Pop & M Theory
- Mario Florescu & The Teachers
2010 line-up
- Terje Rypdal
- Miroslav Vitous & Gerald Cleaver
- Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer
- Elina Duni Quartet
- Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio
- Marcin Wasilewski Trio
- Wolfert Brederode Quartet
- Djabe
- Patricia Barber Quartet
- Dan Berglund’s Tonbruket
- Trygve Seim & Frode Haltli
- Bega Blues Band
- Funky Growl
2009 line-up
17 July (Day One)
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Terje Rypdal Group Jazz de Necaz Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio
18 July (Day Two)
John Abercrombie Helge Lien Trio - Helge Lien Trio at Myspace Music Bega Blues Band Platonic Band
19 July (Day Three)
Nils Petter Molvær Ulrich Drechsler Mişi Farkas Trio Trigon
2008 line-up
Harry Tavitian & Orient Express Victor Wooten Group Djabe feat. Steve Hackett Lithuanian Jazz Trio - Miroslav Vitous & The Mediterranean Meeting
- Lars Danielsson & Leszek Możdżer
- Jarosław Śmietana Quartet
- Nightlosers
- Dominique Di Piazza & Horea Crişovan Project
- Charles Lloyd Duo with Jason Moran
- Yellowjackets feat. Mike Stern
2007 line-up
- Berti Barbera & 4given
- Alexandrina & Friends
- Voer
- Marius Mihalache
- Jan Garbarek Group
- Maciej Sikala Trio
- Viktoria Tolstoy
- Nguyên Lê
- Dixi Krauser feat. Von Lech
- Acum
- Teodora Enache
- Scott Henderson
- Eldad Tarmu Jazz Ensemble
See also
External links
- Gărâna Jazz official homepage
- [Book on Garana Jazz https://www.academia.edu/9652613/Garana_Jazz]
- Gărâna Jazz at Europe Jazz Network
- Gărâna Jazz Festival
- Gărâna Jazz Festival 2013 in allaboutjazz
- Gărâna Jazz Festival 2012 in allaboutjazz
- Gărâna Jazz Festival 2011 in allaboutjazz
- Gărâna Jazz Festival 2014 Evenimentul Zilei
- Gărâna Jazz Festival 2014 Programme
- Gărâna Jazz Festival 2014 Jazz Compas
- Gărâna Jazz Festival 2014 in media TV
- Gărâna Jazz Festival 2014 Programme