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You wouldn’t think that a small village about 20km further down the lake would feel the need to compete with Montreux.
But Cully Jazz Festival seems to do that, although not at the same time of year.
For nine days from Friday April 4, there are daily concerts, either in the afternoon or early evening.
Seeing as […]
Montreux is renowned internationally for its Jazz Festival.
Less well-known is the Choral Festival which takes place at the Stravinsky Auditorium next week.
Frankly, I know little about it, but thought if this is the sort of thing you like, you might wish to know about it.
About 20 Choral groups from around Europe will be playing. The […]
The magnificent concert house in Luzern (Lucerne) plays host to a classical mustifal festival next week. Starting on Saturday 8th March, continuing through to Sunday 16th.
As it’s a pre-Easter festival, there is a religous aspect to some of the music, Bach’s Passion of St John, and Michael Tippet’s A Child of our Time.
There’s also the […]
Blimey, they’re still going on.
Only two weeks to Easter and the beginning of the 40 days beforehand is still being celebrated.
Mind you, seeing as you’re supposed to give up stuff in those 40 days I can’t help but admire the logic of having the party late.
Anyway, Avenches, 12km NW of Fribourg is up for a […]
Schiffbau means (literally) Ship building. So it’s a strange building to find in the middle of a city.
But no, they really used to build the boats that sail on lake Zürich down near Escher-Wyss Platz. The boats are fairly large too, with capacities of around 750 passengers.
But now the industrial area is steadily being converted […]
Staying on this week’s theme of music, there’s a major Blues festival held annually in Luzern.
It runs from the 2nd to 11th November and is based around the Grand Casino
It features a number of international acts; the idea being to allow residents of Switzerland (and passing visitors) to experience what the […]
Next weekend sees another big party come to Zürich. Freestyle.ch is Europe’s biggest freestyle sports event. Covering snowboard, free-style skiing, skateboards and FMX (I assume that’s something to do with little bikes) the top stars from each sport will be competing for the top USD 100,000 prize.The action all takes place at Landiwiese, on the […]
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Written by Geoff Collins [email] for b5media.
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