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Updated: July 3 2009, 12:48 CET
MONTREUX: Summertime is jazz time. All over the world jazz festivals are taking place and performers travel from one country to another. Today the 43th edition of the annual Montreux jazz festival opens with performances by amongst others Marianne Faithfull, BB King, Lily Allen, Steely Dan, McCoy Tyner Trio, Jamie Cullum, George Benson, John Fogerty, Seal and Grace Jones. Founded by Claude Nobs in 1967, over the years the Montreux Jazz Festival has become an important event for music fans in Switzerland and around the world. Its stages have been graced by all of music’s greats, from Miles Davis to Ray Charles and from David Bowie to Massive Attack.Read more
Updated: June 29 2009, 10:20 CET
ROME: This weekend the Palazzo delle Esposizioni opened her doors to ‘Gina Lollobrigida fotografa’ a retrospective celebrating actress Gina Lollobrigida’s 50 years of activity as a photographer.Read more
Updated: June 22 2009, 11:55 CET
ZURICH: Since last Friday the Swiss city Zürcher Zurich celebrates the Zürcher Festspiele 2009. This years edition of the annual festival features a combination of opera, concerts, dance, drama and art, presented in various venues.Read more
Updated: June 26 2009, 10:13 CET
LOS ANGELES: The King of Pop, Michael Jackson (1958-2009), died yesterday at the age of 50, shortly after going into cardiac arrest at his rented seven-bedroom estate in Holmby Hills in Los Angeles, which he was renting for $100,000 a month.Read more
Updated: June 19 2009, 11:29 CET
AMSTERDAM: Today the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam will be officially opened. According to their website “a major new European cultural destination, the greatly expanded Hermitage Amsterdam, will welcome visitors to its elegantly restored 17th-century building in the historic heart of Amsterdam.”Read more
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