The Opening Night will serve as a Birthday party of Quincy Jones, with an exclusive concert directed through Chaka Khan

The first wave of artists has been demonstrated for the Montreux 2025 Jazz Festival, adding Neil Young, Sam Fender, Pulp, Raye and more. See the main points below.

It occurs when the prestigious festival returns to the picturesque coasts of Lake Lake this summer for its 59th edition that will take a position between July and 19, with tickets for sale this Friday, April 11 at 11 a. m.

The festival’s opening night will serve as a birthday party for Quincy Jones and his durable heritage. It will come with an exclusive concert directed through Chaka Khan and had special visitors who have worked in the emblematic producer.

“I feel venerated to reopen the Montreux Jazz Festival this year, joining so many global class artists,” Khan said. “I am so proud to use special visitors with me, to pay musical tribute to my friend Quincy Jones; one of the friends that music and Montreux have ever had. “

In another place, Neil Young will return to Montreux for the first time in nine years, breaking a special 3 -hour concert with The Hearts Chrome, with Micah Nelson and Harvest Moon Organ and Sponer Oldham. It will be carried out in a while after its credibility in Glastonbury in June.  

Canadian composer Alanis Morissette, who will commemorate the 30th anniversary of his album “Jagged Little Pill”, such as Santana, Lionel Richie, Joe Bonamassa and Diana Ross, such as Santana, Lionel Richie, Joe Bonamassa and Diana Ross

Quincy Jones and Chaka Khan. Credit: Lionel Flusin

A diversity of double invoices in the programming has also been incorporated, adding that Britpop Icons Pulp, which will debut in Montreux after the block party is leveling to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of his album “Silent Alarm”.

FKA TWIGS will bring its unique live exhibition on the Lake scene in a while after Jamie XX, Raye will return for the consecutive moment and will happen after Brit’s winner and former Little Mix Jade Star, and the Black Keys percentage the scene with Guérrez brothers, the manufacturers their last two albums.

The other artists who enroll in the invoice come with Sam Fender, who has recently been appointed to have the most productive vinyl of 2025 so far with “people who look”, as well as Benson Boone, Noah Kahan, Brandi Carlile, Jorja Smith, Beth Gibbons, James Blake, Fins and Max Richter.

Find the complete diversity in the poster below and here to buy tickets.

Montreux 2025 Jazz range line.

Last summer, the 2024 edition of Montreux Jazz Festival won a NME Star complaint, with Andrew Trendell describing it as demonstrating why the festival “attracted the most important names of rock, pop and jazz since 1968”.

“Tears have spilled, magic has become, and that is why we are here. That is why we went to Montreux and we will come with us again,” he reads.

This episode included Kraftwerk, The National, The Smashing Pumpkins, Alice Cooper, PJ Harvey, Justice, Jessie Ware, Massive Attack, Air, Lenny Kravitz, Sting, Janelle Monáe, Michael Kiwanuka, Duran Duran, Paolo Nutini, Sweet and Plus Cell.