Some of the family’s top artists in the global world are stepping back this summer in the impressive setting of Monteuux for the mythical musical celebration
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The Montreux Jazz Festival has presented an impressive program for its 2025 festival, with legends, especially Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts and Chaka Khan, as revolutionary artists such as Raye, Sam Fender and Shaboozey.
The typically eclectic program was hurried to the two -week festival in Montrainux, Switzerland, where musicians occur in an amazing context of Lake Geneva (Lake Geneva) and the surrounding mountains.
This year’s event, which will take place between July 4 and 19, includes the debut of several artists on familiar faces.
Neil Young will bring a 3 -hour special concert at the Lake level with its organization after an appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in June. The other legends that seem come with the Canadian star Alanis Morisette, the heroes of the Santana and Joe Bonamasa guitar, singer Lionel Richie and the Motown Diana Ross icon.
In one of Lake Stage’s many double tickets, Pulp will be held for the first time after the independent band party, which celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their debut Silent Alarm album.
Jamie XX will open for Avant’s pop artist -Garde Fka Twigs, while Raye, who seduced visitors last year, will return with that of his colleague British pop singer Jade. The Black Keys will percentage a scene with Guerrrez brothers, who produced the last two albums of Ohio’s rock band.
In the same scene, some of the new brightest voices of Rock and Will Appeent: Sam Fender, who recently released his new album, People Viring, the viral singer Benson Boone and the star of the indie-folk Noah Kahan.
Meanwhile, American singer and songwriter Brandi Brandi Carlile Accessorea the casino scene after the launch of her beloved complaints album with Elton John, who believes in Los Angeles? The artists of R&B Jorja Smith and Leon Bridges register for the billing along the singer and soloist Beth Gibbons, while James Blake will make his fifth appearance in Monteuux, this time with a solo piano game.
Towards the end of the festival, some of the main young jazz artists of the United Kingdom will perform: the saxophonist Nubya García and the Ezra collective of the Mercury Prize.
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Chaka Khan said: “I feel venerated to reopen the Monteuux Jazz Festival this year, joining so many global elegance artists. I am so proud to bring special visitors to me, to pay a musical tribute to my friend Quincy Jones; one of the friends that music and Montreux have ever had. “
As for recent years, visitors can enjoy a series of loose performances along the docks, an electronic outdoor club scene for live cooking demonstrations and yoga lessons. The MJF Spotlight brand, which supports emerging artists, will also have their own outdoor scene for the event.
The Independent is related to the Montreux Jazz Festival for the third consecutive year, bringing readers the most recent updates, policies and complaints of the soft event.
The editor-in-the-check for The Independent, Geordie Greig, said: “The Montreux Jazz Festival is every star musician’s favourite position.
“The Independent is proud to run with this music festival.
Editor, Music Principal Roisin O’Connor, said: “I’m most very pleased that The Independent is joining Montreux Jazz for the third year in a row.
“Every time they manage to overcome themselves by revealing an ordinary program that adds legends of intelligent religion and the new brightest stars, which will happen in a context of the maximum incredible panorama imaginable. The Montreux team is also passionate about the birthday party of the musical clearness that we are in the Independent, and I cannot wait to enroll in them. “
Mathieu Jaton, CEO of MJF, said: “We are revered to our collaboration with The Independent, a media worldwide known for the quality of their journalism. It is a privilege to deepen this appointment with such a committed couple, who stores our hobby for music and avoid gentiles about emerging talents.
“Beyond the exhibition of the media, this collaboration is based on shared values: curiosity, main criteria and preference to provide music in all its forms. Together, our goal is to offer the public an immersive and considered in the exclusive Revel in the Montreux Jazz Festival. “
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