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 takes place every year since 1997 in the Gărâna Village (150 km by car from Timişoara 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.
Enzo Favata Quartet
Nighthawks
Tigran Hamasyan Trio
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Volcán Projekt
Arifa
Adam Bałdych & Paweł Kaczmarczyk
Ralph Towner & Wolfgang Muthspiel
Vlatko Stefanovski Trio
Renaud Garcia-Fons
Sebastian Spanache Trio
Biréli Lagrène Gypsy Project
Stanley Clarke Quartet
Stucky / Doran / Studer / Tacuma - Hendrix Project
Snarky Puppy
Stefano Battaglia Trio
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
