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The
most beautiful musical events other than classical can be found
in this section.
A whole spectrum of superstars awaits you here:
listen to the jazz festivals in Brussels, Perugia, Montreux, Duesseldorf, Pori, Kaunas, Copenhagen, Warsaw and Dresden, and swing to the old tunes of New Orleans. The jazz giants Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Roberta Flack supply enough hits to equip thousands of festivals with sweet music. Listen to "Autumn Leaves", "Someone to watch over me" and "Tuxedo Junction" performed by the new jazz stars such as Norah Jones, Diana Krall and Silje Nergaard. You will feel in dreamland!
Something a bit harder goes on at festivals such as the “Rock am ring”, the “FFWD Heineken Dance Parade” and the “Arezzo Wave Love Festival”. Here you can experience something close to the Woodstock party atmosphere. Rock with ‘in’ bands such as Limp Bizkit, RAP, with R‘n’B stars such as Sean Paul, Eminem and Beyonce Knowles, or with new German acts like “Wir sind Helden” and the “Sportfreunden Stiller”, relax to the sound of Lenny Kravitz, Dido and Enya and free yourselves to the punk beats of No Doubt, Pink, Christina Aguilera and the Guano Apes! And of course teen groups and boy bands as Overground, Preluders, No Angels, O-Town and the German superstars Alexander always emerge during such Festivals to inspire the masses!
You can meet Britney Spears, or indeed Justin Timberlake, and girls will mob Robbie Williams and the German stars Xavier Naidoo, Yvonne Catterfeld and Jeanette Biedermann.
But other stars such as Luciano Pavarotti, Elton John, Joe Cocker, Lionel Richie and Zucchero are also represented in this category. The Beatles too will entice you, with a whole week dedicated to Liverpudlian memories!
The “Laulupidu”, the “Kaustinen Folk Music Festival”, the “Rencontres Polyphoniques” the “Akkordeonfestival de Lille Wazemmes” and the “Eidgenössisches Jodlerfest” in Aarau draw people from the most diverse countries of Europe and inspire with their traditional folk music.
Indeed in this category there is something for every kind of music lover. Dip into this musical world and choose your favourite festival!
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"As a European I welcome the publication of this Top 500 Events guide. It's really much more. It's an encyclopaedia of regional traditions and customs in Europe , and a valuable journey planner for every European citizen. It will be my vademecum on trips throughout Europe in future.
I hope that you too will derive plenty of enjoyment from the guide, and that it will help to bring Europe still a little closer together."
Jacques Santer
Former Prime Minister of Luxemburg
Former President of the European Commission
