Title: Free rock-concerts in Carouge
Location: Carouge
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Description: This weekend, the very hip Geneva-based English-speaking group Aloan will be featured at a concert in Carouge sponsored by Caritas. Also Girls in The Kitchen and the Axel Fisch Group. On Friday night the entrance fee is CHF10. On Saturday and Sunday concerts are free.
On Sunday plenty of activities for kids with: Jacky Lagger and their new “chou chou Geatan.”
Start Date: 2010-03-26
End Date: 2010-03-28
Title: Summer concerts in Annemasse
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
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Description: Every Saturday evening enjoy jazz at the Fantasia Park in Annemasse. The city of Annemasse is only a train stop away from trams 12, 17 and 16 from Geneva. Shows begin at 17:30.
Start Date: 16 Aug 2009
End Date: 29 Aug 2009
Title: Music at dawn
Location: Geneva
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Description: Wake up, early, really early, and head to the Bains des Paquis to listen to music at dawn. The one hour concert begins at 06:00 (6 am that is).
Start Date: 03 Aug 2009
End Date: 13 Sep 2009
Title: The Saint-Germain summer concerts
Location: Geneva
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Description: In the heart of Old Town, a series of free classical music concerts. Every Sunday and Monday through 7 September.
Start Date: 03 Aug 2009
End Date: 07 Sep 2009
Title: Free jazz, classical and popular music concerts
Location: Geneva
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Description: Part of the “Musique en Ete Festival,” free concerts every Wednesday and Saturday at the Ella Fitzgerald theater in La Grange park.
Start Date: 01 Jul 2009
End Date: 29 Aug 2009
Title: Fetes de Geneve
Location: Geneva
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Description: The traditional Geneva Festival kicks off 30 July but the “pre-fetes” or pre-fest concerts and activities start on the 16th. Food, music, carnival rides and more on the shore of Lake Geneva. The host of honor this year is the Sultanate of Oman.
Start Date: 16 Jul 2009
End Date: 09 Aug 2009
The Crowd in Stravinsky Hall - Photo courtesy of Montreux Jazz Festival
Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - If Rachelle Ferrell’s musical expressiveness is shocking, this is a good thing.
Ferrell, a Montreux veteran, treated the audience to her awesome vocal range and facial acrobatics as she warmed the crowd up by running her rich voice up and down the word M-O-N-T-R-E-U-X.
Montreux Jazz Festival 2009
Lake Geneva region (GenevaLunch) – It’s a gorgeous summer day, the temperature is sitting around 27 degrees and I am dreaming of jumping in the bracing waters of Lake Geneva as I skirt the shoreline on the train from Geneva to Montreux.
I am headed to the Montreux Jazz Festival with great anticipation, but little expectation as I am largely unfamiliar with the music of the lineup this evening. This will be my first of three or four forays into the musical smorgasborg that is Montreux the first two weeks of July each year.
Road to Montreux
In addition to well known acts including George Benson, The Blind Boys of Alabama, the Earth Wind & Fire Experience, John Fogerty and Seal, I will be sampling the musical talent present at the festival, including free concerts staged in Montreux’s Parc de Vernex each afternoon.
If you haven’t been able to steal away this year to Montreux, or just want to see more of what’s on hand, check out GenevaLunch for updates through Friday July 17th.
