Concerts and DJs in Vernier during four days.
Location: Vernier, Geneva
Link out: http://vernier-festival.ch/Vernier_Festival/Pro…
Start date: 8 Sep 2010
End date: 11 Sep 2010
Three days of brass music in Geneva and Lausanne.
Location: Lausanne
Link out: http://www.pourunairdefraternite.ch/Pour_un_air…
Start date: 3 Sep 2010
End date: 5 Sep 2010
The vaulted arches of the Romanesque church in the Medieval town will be welcoming some great names from the world of song, music and ballet.
Location: St Prex
Link out: http://www.stprexfestival.com/v2/
Start date: 20 Aug 2010
End date: 29 Aug 2010
Today, musical improvisation is inevitably associated with jazz and the performance of classical music. But each summer for the past decade, a Lausanne festival has been reminding us that, 100 or 200 years ago, improvisation also ruled in this area.
Concerts (at the Conservatory and in various churches) and courses bring this pleasant music back into fashion, with musicians sometimes calling upon their listeners to suggest challenges or themes!
Location: Lausanne, Vaud
Link out: http://www.fmil.org/
Start date: 15 Aug 2010
End date: 18 Aug 2010
The Verbier Festival Orchestra conducted by its Music Director Charles Dutoit with soloist Yuja Wang opens this year’s Verbier Festival. The Orchestra goes on to give concerts under Semyon Bychkov, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Daniel Harding. Other Festival highlights include the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and Gábor Takács-Nagy, two recitals by Evgeny Kissin, an unprecedented cycle of Schubert’s piano sonatas by Elisabeth Leonskaja, as well as appearances by Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell, Leonidas Kavakos, Gidon Kremer, Hélène Grimaud and many many more artists. The closing concert on 1 August features Richard Strauss’ opera Salome sung by some of the greatest names in opera and conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Location: Verbier, Valais
Link out: http://www.verbierfestival.com/
Start date: 16 Jul 2010
End date: 1 Aug 2010
If you love metal, you will love this: Megadeth, Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Slayer, Motorhead and more!
Location: Jonschwil, SG
Link out: http://sz.sonispherefestivals.com/english-infor…
Start date: 18 Jun 2010
End date: 19 Jun 2010
Title: All-you-can-eat barbecue buffet & jazz concerts
Location: Vullierens
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Description: Every Friday on the castle gardens, an all-you-can-eat barbecue and jazz concert for CHF40. Children pay CHF15.
Start Date: 2010-05-21
End Date: 2010-06-11
Title: Yodeling festival
Location: Bern
Link out: Click here
Description: Celebrate, yodeling or not, 100 years of the creation of the Swiss yodeling association.
Start Date: 2010-04-30
End Date: 2010-05-09
Title: Music: The accordion in the world
Location: Geneva
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Description: Discover the accordion through performances, games and a fun lecture for all. Great activity for children and families.
A second performance takes place on 24 April at the City Library.
Start Date: 2010-04-17
End Date: 2010-04-24
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: Amadeus festival
Location: Geneva
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Description: Classical music at La Grange Park. An event for all.
Start Date: 03 Sep 2009
End Date: 12 Sep 2009
Title: Music festival in Vernier
Location: Vernier, Geneva
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Description: An outdoors music festival in the municipality of Vernier in Canton Geneva.
Start Date: 09 Sep 2009
End Date: 13 Sep 2009
Title: Carouge Vogue Festival
Location: Carouge, Geneva
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Description: Three days of music, food, activities for kids and adults, an artisan market and more!
Start Date: 28 Aug 2009
End Date: 31 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: International week of piano and chamber music
Location: Vevey, Vaud
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Description: A week of some of the best piano soloists and chamber music in beautiful Vevey. Prices are affordable, CHF25 for adults and free for children under 16 years of age.
Start Date: 15 Aug 2009
End Date: 22 Aug 2009
Title: Pully for noise music festival
Location: Pully, Vaud
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Description: A jazz and rock music festival in Pully and Lausanne.
Start Date: 20 Aug 2009
End Date: 22 Aug 2009
Title: Jval music festival
Location: Begnins, Vaud
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Description: A three-day live and DJ music festival near Lausanne.
Start Date: 27 Aug 2009
End Date: 29 Aug 2009
Santigold brings Brooklyn to Paleo
Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Not Fancy but Funky, Funny, and Fun. This was a summary of the Santigold show Saturday night at Paleo.
Santigold, a Brooklyn, New York native, has discovered what those other kings of kitsch from the borough, the Beastie Boys, found out 20 years ago; chutzpah is cooler than gangsta’.
Private banker by day, Hip Hop fan by night arriving at Paleo
Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Amidst Paleo’s 35,000 concert goers on Friday, I met a private banker who had come straight to the festival from the Geneva airport, hoping to catch some of the Hip Hop acts.
“In fact, I was hoping to see NTM [the French rap group Nic Ta Mere] but the lead singer is still under arrest, so they are cancelled,” the Swiss banker, Damian told me.
Damian, who lived and worked in India, was upbeat when I shared with him the lineup for the evening including a Bhangra performance and South African Hip Hop.
Achanak welcomed concert-goers on Friday night with their dance-friendly mix of Bhangra and electro music.
Achanak's irresistable dance rhythms - photo, Jared Bloch
Paleo crowd arriving on Thursday evening - Photo, Jared Bloch
Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Fans enjoyed unexpectedly sunny weather Thursday evening at Paleo, in spite of intermittent showers earlier in the day. Apart from a few soggy patches at the concert sites, shows went on without a hitch, and the extra plastic sacs and rain gear packed in, went unused.
Mexican virtuosos Rodrigo and Gabriela set the tone for the evening, with a near hour-long guitar duel featuring their own material as well as covers of “Stairway to Heaven,” and “Oye Como Va.” See GL’s Paleo Photo Album
A passageway to India via Nyon - Photo Jared Bloch
Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - If your vacation itinerary doesn’t include a trip to India this year, consider a visit to the Paleo Festival. As part of its offerings, the Nyon based festival is highlighting Indian culture, music, crafts and food this year.
For your passage to India, take the train to Nyon and then the local train. Direction: St Cergue (see GL tips in ”Practical guide to Nyon’s Paleo Festival,” and see GL’s Paleo Photo Album).
The crowd arriving in Nyon on the 17:00 train on Wednesday left no doubt about the tremendous following Paleo has accrued during the past 30 years. In addition to the range of Indian musicians performing on Wednesday 23 July, an array of musical talent from pop/rock dance favorites Franz Ferdinand, to Bonaparte, billed as an “international cabaret burlesque rock show,” and Quebecois Chanteuse Pascale Picard, was on display.
Paleo crowd, 2009
What it is: The largest outdoor music festival in Switzerland, started in 1976, with over 4.3 million concert-goers since then. In 2008, the audience was 227,000 strong, and there were 146 performances on six stages.
Volunteers, all 4,062 of them, helped to make the experience a great one for all. According to a survey in 2008, 59 percent of concert-goers came from the Lake Geneva region.
Title: Paleo music festival
Location: Nyon, Vaud
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Description: Every year, more than 120 concerts are staged for more than 200,000 spectators in the 84-hectare Asse site, near Nyon. See GL’s Paleo Photo Album and the rest of GenevaLunch’s coverage of the Paleo Festival.
Start Date: 21 Jul 2009
End Date: 26 Jul 2009
- Melody Gardot, cool incarnate – Photo courtesy of Montreux Jazz Festival
Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Melody Gardot is either an old soul hiding out in a young woman’s body, or an incredibly aloof, and self-assured performer, or both.
The party's over for this year - Photo ©Jared and Gabriela Bloch
Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Seventeen July, the final day for GenevaLunch at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and I think I finally figured it out.
Having driven to Montreux from Geneva three days, and taken the train a fourth day, I would opt for public transportation next year. Festival parking was well organized (as previously noted) but really by the time you negotiate Lausanne traffic, find parking, walk or bus it to the Convention Center, and then do the same in reverse, a good nap on the train looks mighty appealing.
Ray Parker Jr.'s smooth vocals - Photo ©Montreux Jazz Festival
Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – There was a time warp in Montreux last night that took me back to the days when I used to sing in front of the mirror waiting for the moment when I could go dancing with the big girls, on a “Ladies Night” because even then I knew, “A Woman Needs Love” and it is easy to get lost in “Boogie Wonderland.”
These are some of the dance and R&B anthems of the late 70s and 80s performed to a packed auditorium at the Montreux Jazz festival last night, 16 July.
Title: Lausanne estivale 2009
Location: Lausanne, Vaud
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Description: A series of performances throughout the summer and early fall. Theatre, music, dance and other open air activities. Look for the guide to find the one that best suits your interest.
Start Date: 16 Jun 2009
End Date: 24 Sep 2009
Title: Fete de la Musique
Location: Lake Geneva region, France, Switzerland
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Description: Thousands of musicians, hundreds of concerts and stages, all in celebration of the summer solstice.
City streets are flooded by music and revelers. Music is not limited to the streets, but can be heard in cathedrals, churches, concert halls, and in clubs!
Each city offers their own programmes and local newspapers publish inserts to help concert goers find their way around. Music is not the only thing you will find on the streets.
If you have never been to one of these “fetes” prepare for a long evening.
Start Date: 19 Jun 2009
End Date: 21 Jun 2009
Title: Sixth musical festival in Bougy-Villars
Location: Bougy Villars, Vaud
Description: The sixth edition of this musical festival includes presentations among the vines. That’s right some of the vineyards in the region become center stage for this yearly event.
At 20:00 a concert in honour of composer Bernard Schulé.
For further info: J.-F. Vaney +41 79 697 75 47
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 06 Jun 2009
End Time: 21:00
