•Written by Edward Girardet•
Swiss Pakistan Society presents
Charity Dinner and Musical Evening with Pakistani
Renowned Artist, “Shafqat Amanat Ali with his musicians, Live instrumental music,
Danses, Mega hits of Bollywood songs:.
•Written by Nick Smit• ••Tuesday•, 21 •June• 2011 01:31•
Saturday, June 18, in Nyon, the moon was bouncing through a cloudless sky off Lake Geneva. The setting was perfect for music and general debauchery under an artistic pretense. With concert and bar tents all over the sloped evening-lit town, the stage settings were scattered throughout from La Place du Chateau to the Bord du Lac. The night did not lack volunteers.
•Written by Peter Hulm• ••Sunday•, 19 •June• 2011 20:57•
45th Montreux Jazz Festival: The 2011 lineup includes CARLOS SANTANA & JOHN MCLAUGHLIN (1 July), Jimmy Cliff (1 July), Santana alone (2 July), B.B. King (2 and 3 July), Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin (4 July), George Benson + Dr John + David Sanborn (5 July), Ruben Blades (6 July), Andreas Vollenweider (6 July July), Natalie Cole (10 July), Sting (11 July), Return to Forever (12 July), Seal (12 July), Paul Simon (14 July), Liza Minelli (15 July) and Deep Purple (16 July).
•Written by William T. Dowell• ••Thursday•, 16 •June• 2011 02:26•
With more than 100 musical performances at 30 locations, the Fete de la Musique, which begins with a sunrise 6:00 AM concert at the Bains des Paquis this Friday and runs through Sunday, is an occasion not to miss. Not only is the Festival Geneva's premiere cultural event, but this weekend marks the Festival's 20th anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, 20 pianos have been set up around town for anyone to use when the mood strikes. To add to the festival atmosphere, 300 international dancers in costume are planning a parade on Sunday.
•Written by John Bland• ••Wednesday•, 04 •March• 2009 16:20•
If challenged to hum, whistle or sing 12 Beatles songs in the space of five minutes I could offer Hey Jude, Fool on the Hill, Obladi Oblada, Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday, Something in the Way she Moves, She Loves You, Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, Lovely Rita Meter-Maid, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Lady Madonna. And for a baker's dozen I'll chuck in Lennon's Imagine. That actually took two minutes and I could give you another dozen within the remaining three minutes. These and a great many of the others – Wikipedia lists 258 of them – are so familiar that at any time you can hear and recognise them on ring-tones, through a random scan of your radio channels, on the annoying musak of supermarkets or in music shops from Kyoto to Quito and from Hobart to Harlem.
•Written by Sue Souchaud• ••Wednesday•, 14 •January• 2009 06:00•
Middle age is known to produce extreme reactions. Marriages dissolve. Children become victims. Plastic surgeons become confidantes. And – it seems - punk rock groups are born. That was the way it was for the Gex Pistols, the self-proclaimed ‘middle aged and angry’ rock band from the Pays de Gex, who came together four years ago, as a motley bunch of expats in their 40’s with a wide-range of musical interests. The band also represents one of the more unusual musical phenonema that only the Lake Geneva Region's highly international mix of communities could produce.
•Written by William T. Dowell• ••Saturday•, 20 •December• 2008 20:56•
The Montreux Jazz Café in the arrival hall of Geneva’s international airport seems like a pretty cool idea. Open a chic café designed to highlight the Montreux JazzFestival, and while customers sip that extravagantly priced cappuccino, waiting for the arrival of the routinely delayed Air France flight from Paris, they can watch a video of the jazz performance that they missed while stalled on the Montreux exit of the autoroute last year. The question of quality, as William Dowell, one of our Essential Edge editors discovered to his acoustic dismay, is is a much different matter.
•Written by The Editors• ••Wednesday•, 03 •September• 2008 20:16•
The world-renowned Welsh Morriston Orpheus is coming to Geneva on 11 October 2008. This is the first time that a professional Welsh male choir will have ever performed in Geneva. Headed by British pianist Joy Amman Davies with Catrin Aur Davies as accompanying soloist, the 100-strong male choir is on Swiss tour as part of its support for Eclat, an association for handicapped people. This is an opportunity not to be missed to see a choir that has performed to wide acclaim from the Sydney Opera House in Australia to Carnegie Hall in New York. Its repertoire ranges from traditional Welsh ballads to Broadway classics. Tickets (45-125 CHF) are available at www.concert-morriston-orpheus.1s.fr or Tel. 41-79-507-2153.