Performers include Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell, Nelson Freire, David Garrett, Valery Gergiev, Leonidas Kavakos, Angelika Kirchschlager, Evgeny Kissin, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Anne-Sophie Mutter, René Pape, Vadim Repin, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Bryn Terfel and Yuja Wang.
The 2011 programme includes an evening featuring the Béjart Ballet of Lausanne.
Location: Verbier, Switzerland
Link out: http://www.verbierfestival.com/?utm_source=Verb…
Start date: 15 Jul 2011
End date: 31 Jul 2011
Ten days of chanson, rock, hip-hop and other kinds of music, all in French.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.voixdefete.com/#/programme/programme…
Start date: 3 Mar 2011
End date: 13 Mar 2011
Paleo special trains, Geneva-Lyon cuts, Migros 2 for 1
Port Elizabeth, South Africa group Ubuhle plays Tuesday night at Paleo
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Regional trains between Geneva and Lyons are out of service from Monday 19 July to 30 July, due to French rail company SNCF repairs. Buses are replacing the train service. The buses from Geneva are behind the Cornavin station, at Place Montbrillant. Details: phone 166 (CHF.50/min) for an automatic message, and if you need to speak to an agent: 0900 300 300 (CHF 1.19/min) from Switzerland.
Paleo: 20% discounts on train tickets
The CFF is working with the Paleo music festival to cut car traffic to Nyon during the festival, which runs from 20-25 July, by offering rail tickets at a 20 percent discount. RailAway prices, if you have a half-price card: round-trip (return) in second-class, Geneva-Nyon CHF6.60, from Lausanne, CHF11.20, from Fribourg, CHF25.60.
Title: Vernier sur rock
Location: Lignon, Geneva
Link out: Click here
Description: A three-day Swiss rock festival!
Start Date: 2010-05-07
End Date: 2010-05-09
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Ticket information update:
Paleo will feature Southern African artists in 2010, a nod to football’s World Cup, inlcuding Ubuhle Be Afrika.
Paleo Festival in June in Nyon, 20-25 July
Tickets were promptly sold out Wednesday noon 21 April, the first sales day, for everything but Tuesday night! Tickets for Sunday, the hottest night, went in 15 minutes and for the other nights within two hours. Paleo’s sale pitch for the remaining night: “The Tuesday night will swing between hip-hop and rock with, on one hand, the mythical French NTM and the inventive N*E*R*D and, on the other, the bruising rock of rock’n'roll legends Iggy and the Stooges and the Frenchman Saez, incisive and engaged.”
Paleo does a great job of fighting the ticket scalping problem with the Paleo bourse, starting 5 May, where you can buy or sell tickets at a fair price. This is also where you can get tickets for the Tuesday shows. And 1,500 tickets go on sale every morning at Paleo for shows that night, so there is always a last-minute chance to get tickets.
Geneva Servette Hockey Club versus SE Bern in the finals
Thursday 22 April in Geneva
Tickets sold out within two hours Wednesday morning to Thursday’s (22 April) sixth game in the best-of-seven series, so the ticket windows won’t be open at the Vernets ice rink.
Title: Boogie woogie festival
Location: Lugano
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Description: The title says it all, boogie and woogie at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano!
Date: 2010-04-10
Title: Guggenmusik festival
Location: Neuchatel
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Description: Guggenmusick, or groups of up to 40 musicians playing drums and brass will parade dressed in costumes through the streets of Neuchatel.
Start Date: 25 Sep 2009
End Date: 27 Sep 2009
Title: Seasonal market in La Chaux
Location: La Chaux, Vaud
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Description: One day seasonal produce and artisans market, music, activities and fun for the whole family.
Date: 05 Sep 2009
Title: Country music night in Gstaad
Location: Gstaad
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Description: This is a lot more than ” a little bit country.” This year Kenny Rogers, is the center star of the festival that also promises a bit of Texas in the Alps.
Start Date: 11 Sep 2009
End Date: 13 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: Geneva Event: Overground festival, electronic music
Location: Geneva
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Description: Geneva’s love for electronic music continues this summer with one of the last festivals of the season.
Start Date: 13 Aug 2009
End Date: 23 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
Unbridled energy with La Pulquería at Paleo 09 © Paleo Festival 2009
Paleo Festival Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The crowd at Paleo couldn’t keep up with La Pulqueria Friday 24 July. The energy level on the stage was reminiscent of the Large Hadron Collider at Cern – well, when it works – and lead singer Huracán Romántica exhorted the crowd in very passable French to dance, to DANCE. He even went into the crowd and gave people liberal shots of tequila from a bottle in an effort to get them fired up.
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
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
Title: St-Prex Festival of song, music and ballet
Location: St. Prex, Vaud
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Description: 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.
Start Date: 21 Aug 2009
End Date: 29 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.
Title: Montjoux music festival
Location: Thonon-les-bains, France
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Description: A three-day, French modern music festival in neighbouring France.
Start Date: 16 Jul 2009
End Date: 18 Jul 2009
Title: Lugano estival jazz
Location: Medrisio and Lugano, Canton Ticino
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Description: All concerts in this open-air festival are free. Among the artists to perform in 2009 are bands from Cuba, jazz bands from the US and contemporary European artists.
Start Date: 26 Jun 2009
End Date: 04 Jul 2009
Title: Largest salsa music festival in Switzerland
Location: Grand Saconnex, Geneva
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Description: The Sarasin park is home to 11 days of music, salsa and latin rythms, food and games. Free concerts every night.
Start Date: 11 Jun 2009
End Date: 21 Jun 2009
Title: Caribana music festival
Location: Crans-près-Céligny, Vaud
Link out: Click here
Description: Over 20 different styles of music and almost the same number of DJs will make your spring evenings a little bit more summery.
Start Date: 10 Jun 2009
End Date: 14 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
Title: Sixth musical festival in Bougy-Villars
Location: Bougy Villars, Vaud
Description: The sixth edition of this musical festival includes performances in local vineyards.
At 20:00 a concert in honour of composer Bernard Schulé has been scheduled to close the celebrations.
For further info: J.-F. Vaney +41 79 697 75 47
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 06 Jun 2009
End Time: 21:00
Title: Tango madness in Lausanne
Location: Lausanne, Vaud
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Description: This is the tenth edition of one of the most popular Argentinean tango festivals. Meeting places: the Montbenon Casino and the park.
You can dance non-stop from 15:00 to 4:00 the next day and until Monday 1 June. Milongas, live orchestras, DJs and more.
Start Date: 28 May 2009
End Date: 01 Jun 2009
Title: Riviera classical music festival
Location: Montreux, Vaud
Link out: Click here
Description: Swiss and international musicians gather in one of the most prestigious events of classical music.
Start Date: 21 Apr 2009
End Date: 26 Apr 2009
Title: Montreux choral festival
Location: Vevey and Montreux, Vaud
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Description: All the concerts, during the contest, will take place in Vevey Theater.
Prize-giving and Gala concert will take place in the Auditorium Stravinsky in Montreux.
Start Date: 14 Apr 2009
End Date: 18 Apr 2009
Title: Boogie woogie festival
Location: Lugano, Ticino
Link out: Click here
Description: According to its organizers, this is one of the most significant “boogie woogie,” piano, and blues, music-festival in the world.
Music style from the 30s and 40s.
Start Date: 16 Apr 2009
End Date: 19 Apr 2009
