Rich cultural, international mix of songs
Location: Patinoire du Littoral, Neuchatel
Link out: http://www.livemusic.ch/concerts/bernard-lavill…
Date: 4 Nov 2011
Start time: 20:30
He’s 17, Canadian, a heartthrob who has a concert in Tel Aviv Thursday 13 April, a practicing Christian who wants to see Israel’s holy places in peace, and a young man who may or may not have tried to line up a visit with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Justin Bieber‘s trip has hit a few bumps, it appears.
Israel’s notoriously aggressive paparazzi have “stalked” him, according to the Jerusalem Post and no one will admit to attempting to set up a meeting with the prime minister, neither Bieber’s team nor the government, but Israeli media report that Bieber wanted a non-political visit while Netanyahu thought it might be a good idea to bring along children from the south, which has been the target of missiles recently.
The good news for the children from the south is that 700 of them will make it to the concert, thanks to donated tickets. And Bieber’s spokesperson told JTA news agency late Wednesday that the ministerial meeting was called off due to logistics problems.
Links to other sites: Jerusalem Post, JTA news agency, Los Angeles Times, NPR
Bob Dylan, Azkena Rock Festival 2010 (photo, Alberto Cabello/wikipedia)
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Legendary American folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is coming to Switzerland for a one-day concert: the Summer Sound Sursee Festival in canton Lucerne.
Dylan, 69, will perform on 24 June in Switzerland as part of his worldwide tour.
Tickets are on sale now through Ticketcorner.
Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Shakira will show again why her hips don’t lie in Geneva and Zurich. The Colombian singer announced she is, once again, visiting Switzerland as part of her The Sun Comes Out tour.
Shakira will perform 7 June 2011 at the Arena de Geneve and 8 June at Zurich’s Hallenstadion, the same stadiums where she performed in 2010 and which sold out in a couple of hours.
Tickets go on sale Friday 11 March through Ticketcorner and FNAC.
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The producer of performer Prince’s two cancelled concerts in Geneva earlier in 2010, Daniel Quarcoopome, has been arrested at a Geneva five-star hotel, city police have confirmed, following local media reports.
The ticket sales group Resaplus had pressed charges against him after the cancellations. An investigation into the affair will now try to determine if fraud is involved.
TSR reports that the ticket agency had advanced CHF700,000 to the producer to organize the concert and part of the rationale behind the court case is to get the money back in order to reimburse ticket-holders.
Stimmreise at the Chateau de Chillon, Switzerland, September 2010
(videos) Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A revolution is taking place in the Swiss Alps and it’s anything but quiet, as the Stimmreise band/quartet showed Thursday night 9 September at the Chateau de Chillon near Montreux. The foursome, created earlier in 2010 in its present form, played an astonishing repertoire of music that defies classification, starting with the odd variety of instruments: bass, guitar, clarinet and yodeller. Nadja Raess is a yodeller who is also a classically trained singer from the Zurich Conservatory, and while she sometimes performs and sings traditional yodel music, this was billed as an evening of classic wordless yodels with modern variations for yodel as an instrument, her specialty.
The show is only two weeks old and there was a sense as the audience left that we were lucky to be there at the start of something very special. Their first CD will be out in November 2010. It didn’t hurt to have the performance at the Chillon Castle as the sun set over Lake Geneva, one of a series of concerts there.
Stimmreise in concert, Chillon Castle, Switzerland, September 2010
The result was breathtaking in every sense. Raess has a beautiful pure voice with impressive power that easily makes it the dominant instrument when she opts for that. At times it was difficult for the ear to separate clarinet from yodel, with exquisite harmonies. Equally impressive was the variety of music, ranging from a handful of traditional yodel songs, which some in the audience were clearly expecting, to disonant jazzy pieces as well as melodic, well-crafted quartet music closer to Brahm’s lullabies than mountain hullabaloo stuff. There was a bit of that, too, foot-stomping and all, with singer Raess tossing off her very high heels to romp barefoot on the stage for the rest of the show.
Stimmreise is a group of seriously professional performers who, without saying a word all evening, not even hello, held the audience in the palm of its hand. The band alternately enchanted with its music and its antics, from the moment they came out looking like somber extras from The Blues Brothers to the sketch where Raess, looking bored while the boys suddenly have a madcap jam session, puts her fingers in her mouth and lets rip a piercing whistle that would make any 11-year-old lad jealous. The others in the group: Dani Haeusler, clarinet, Marc Scheidegger, guitar, and Richard Hugener, e-bass.
The Sweet Child O’Mine guys in Geneva for a one-eve show.
Location: Stade de Geneve
Link out: http://www.geneva-arena.ch/event_details.php?ei…
Date: 16 Sep 2010
An evening of jazz at the Hermance beach. Additional buses will be scheduled after midnight to take concert-goers back to Geneva.
Location: Hermance, Geneva
Link out: http://www.jazzsurlaplage.ch/2010/news_items/
Date: 14 Aug 2010
Start time: 17:00
13-year-old was returning from World Cup kickoff concert
Zenani Mandela, one of nine great-grandchildren of former South African President Nelson Mandela, was killed in a one-car accident as she returned from the kickoff concert for football’s World Cup. The girl was in a car with her grandmother, Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie. The former South African president is in frail health, and had not yet confirmed if he would participate in the opening ceremonies 11 June, before the accident. The family has asked to have their privacy respected. Zenani was the granddaughter of Zindzi Mandela, the former leader’s daughter with Winnie.
No one else was injured in the crash.
Title: Whitney Houston in concert
Location: Geneva
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Description: Whitney is back! Twenty-five years after her first album debut the American artist will perform in Switzerland.
Date: 2010-05-10
Title: concert: Yale University A Cappella Group
Location: Collège du Léman, Versoix
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Description: A cappella concert, American Intl Club of Geneva event, CHF20-40, sign up by 8 March
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-10
End Time: 20:30
Title: Lausanne cathedral Christmas concert
Location: Lausanne
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Description: JC Geiser, the Lausanne cathedral’s noted organist, presenting a surprise programme with “Fireworks” for the annual New Year’s organ concert. Arrive early to ensure a place as this is always packed and no one is admitted after 22:45 for the midnight concert. Free, but a collection will be taken (suggested: CHF10, 15).
Start Time: 22:45
Date: 2009-12-31
Title: Lausanne cathedral Christmas concert
Location: Lausanne
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Description: JC Geiser, the Lausanne cathedral’s noted organist, presenting Bach, Daquin and Dupré for the annual Christmas organ concert. Arrive early to ensure a seat. Free, but a collection will be taken (suggested: CHF10, 15).
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2009-12-25
Title: Do You Speak DJEMBE?
Location: Geneva, BFM Batiment Force Motrice
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Description: Interactive concert: classical music and traditonal African music featuring Lyons Symphony Orchestra, Sewa Beats, individual artists
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 06 Nov 2009
Title: Jazz, blues and rock evening
Location: Morges, Casino
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Description: Drinks, buffet and an evening of music, CHF75
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 06 Nov 2009
End Time: 23:45
Title: Neil Cowley Trio, jazz
Location: Annemasse, France
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Description: British piano virtuoso and his jazz group, with alternative/jazz group Les Paiens as opening act, tickets €10-20
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 17 Oct 2009
Michael Jackson’s fans have flocked to Los Angeles for the performer’s memorial service concert Tuesday 7 July, possibly bringing the city $4 million in tourism money. Mariah Carey, Lionel Ritchie and Stevie Wonder are performing. Signs are that the family will bury him at the celebrity-studded Forrest Hills cemetery in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, a California judge has refused Jackson’s mother’s plea to remove his lawyer and music manager as executors, even on an interim basis, of his estate. The Washington Post and other media from Ireland to Canada to China are calling the events a media circus, in the broadest sense. BBC, CNN, Los Angeles Times, New York Times
Title: Jazz and classical music concerts in Morges
Location: Morges, Vaud
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Description: La Longeraie hotel summer programs kick off with a classical music concert on 5 June, followed by New Orleans’ style jazz later on in the month.
Start Date: 19 Jun 2009
End Date: 20 Jun 2009
Title: Concert, the rose and the lily
Location: Coppet, Vaud
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Description: English and French vocal music from the 1600s presented by the Ensemble Vocal Amaryllis.
Date: 29 May 2009
Title: Contrechamps classical music concerts
Location: Geneva
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Description: A series of classical music concerts performed by the Contrechamps Ensemble.
Start Date: 22 May 2009
End Date: 23 May 2009
Title: Modern music festival
Location: Lausanne, Vaud
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Description: A one-day music festival sponsored by EPFL in Lausanne. The festival presents music performers in English and French aimed to please the music taste of younger generations.
Date: 08 May 2009
Title: Bluegrass concert: Randy Waller & the country gentlemen
Location: La Roche Sur Foron, neighbouring France
Description: A new offer for fans of traditional bluegrass music to catch major US act Randy Waller & the Country Gentlemen.
For further info: Tel: +33 4 50 03 36 68
Or email: direction@larochesurforon.com
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 03 May 2009
Title: Concert: George Robert jazz orchestra
Location: Geneva
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Description: This Swiss based group will perform in anticipation to the debut of their new CD. A must for jazz lovers around.
Date: 29 Apr 2009
Title: Concert: Aloan, trip-hop
Location: Geneva
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Description: If you have never heard this Geneva group you might consider going to this concert and check them out. They are a great mix of trip-hop and are great live performers.
The lyrics are in English, the music is electro and hip-hop and the hall where the concert will take place is awesome.
Date: 30 Apr 2009
Title: Concert: Toots and the Maytals
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
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Description: Jamaican reggae in neighbouring France. Toots and the Maytals will be playing with “Wasulu Selecta”. (No Ben Harper this time around).
Date: 29 Apr 2009
Title: Concert of Vilnius University Women Choir
Location: Geneva
Description: Celebrating Lithuania’s 1000 Year Anniversary:
Concert of Vilnius University Women Choir “Virgo” accompanied by Vilnius University Chamber Ensemble.
Program: Vivaldi, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Rutter, Jenkins, Chilcott and several chamber works.
Admission is free.
Where: Basilique de Notre Dame, Place de Cornavin, Geneva.
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 22 Apr 2009
Title: Concert: A tribute to the Stones
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
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Description: The Stones revisited by hip-hop, chanson and other rock artists. It is all happening in Annemasse this weekend.
Date: 14 Feb 2009
Title: Concert: Le souffle des saisons, Nyon
Location: Nyon, Vaud
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Description: A Lausanne based orchestra with all wood wind instruments. One concert not to be missed.
Date: 22 Feb 2009
Title: Carmina Burana concert
Location: Several locations
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Description: More than 200 voices and 6 soloists will perform the Carmina Burana by Carl Orff at neighbouring France, Geneva, and Morges.
Start Date: 24 Jan 2009
End Date: 31 Jan 2009
Title: French chanson festival
Location: Evian, France
Link out: Click here
Description: Festival: Les courants d’airs takes place during 12 days, in 15 different music venues and a total of 24 concerts.
Start Date: 31 Jan 2009
End Date: 16 Feb 2009
