Switzerland's entertainment culture is multilingual and serious in its institutional investment. The Montreux Jazz Festival on the shore of Lake Geneva — founded in 1967 by Claude Nobs and featuring historic recordings of everyone from Miles Davis to Nina Simone — is one of the world's great music festivals, running 17 days in July across multiple venues along the lakefront. The Zurich Film Festival and the Locarno Film Festival (one of the world's oldest, held in the Piazza Grande open-air) add two of Europe's most respected cinema events to the Swiss summer calendar. The Menuhin Competition, held in Geneva, is the world's most prestigious violin competition for young players. The Basel Fasnacht Carnival — three days of unmaskings, piccolo corps, and lantern processions, beginning at 4am on the Monday after Ash Wednesday — is one of Europe's most dramatic Carnival events and specifically Swiss in its character.