Label Suisse Festival Lausanne, 16 – 18 September, various venues

Label Suisse is a free festival organised in corporation with Swiss Music Export, Fondation CMA and a number of other funding organisation with the aim to represent Swiss music in all its abundant stylistic and linguistic variety. Thanks to the involvement of Pro Helvetia, the festival is truly able to reflect all types of music, from rock, pop, folk and electro all the way to chanson, classic music and choral singing and contemporary avant-garde. Label Suisse, together with the Swiss Ministry of Culture, also supports artists living abroad and creates networking opportunities for Swiss music business professionals and important representatives from elsewhere. The presence of all four language channels of national public service radio and television SRF/RTS/RSI guarantees a nationwide audience for the festival. This year’s seventh edition takes in ten venues and offers more than 80 free live concerts and DJ sets.

These are the acts – all Swiss! – performing live at the Label Suisse Festival this year, all for free:

Sophie Hunger – Patent Ochsner – Aliose – Peter Kernel – Jael – Hyperculte – Flexfab – Galatea Quartet – Marina Viotti – Le Pot – Arte Quartett – Susanne Abbuehl & Matthieu Michel – Al Stone – Baiju Bhatt & Red Sun – Trio Aeterno – Fabian Tharin – Laskaar – Bibi Vaplan – Martin Lechner – Rootwords – Macao – Bastian Baker – Geneva Brass Quintet & Michel Tirabosco – Yellow Teeth – Elvett – Régis – Phall Fatale – Le Roi Angus – Pyrit – Len Sander – Kadebostany – Mule & Man – Swing Power – Lisa Tatin – Trio Eclipse – Marco Santilli’s Cheroba & Il Fiato Delle Alpi – Andrea Esperti Roma Rio – Cerulean Poppy – Gauthier Toux Trio – Pierre Omer’s Swing Revue – Faber – Duck Duck Grey Duck – Soften et Capitain etc. – The Rambling Wheels – Anach Cuan – Lia – Gaetan – The Animen – Eluveitie – Junior Tshaka – The Great Harry Hillman – Grand Pianoramax – Egopusher – Ursina – Pablo Nouvelle – The Lonesome Southern Comfort Componay – Gabriele Pezzoli Trio – Nexus Reed Quintett – Merel Quartet – The Rainmakers – Louis Matute Trio – Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne – Colin Vallon – Jo Mettraux – Nadja Räss & Markus Flückiger – Mark Kelly – Pascal Gamboni & Rees Coray

One of several conference events during Label Suisse is a panel discussion organised jointly by FCMA, RTS, EuroRadio and Swiss Music Export. Entitled „Soutien des nouveaux talents par le biais des radios – politique de soutien et de promotion“ („Support for new talent through radio – support measures and promotion“), the panel takes place on Saturday 17 September, 11:00, at “la salle du Bourg”, Rue de Bourg 51, 1003 Lausanne. The event is open to the public.

The discussion is chaired by Yann Zitouni (radio producer at RTS), and the participants are Peter Smidt (creative director, Eurosonic Noorderslag), Hervé Riesen (deputy programme director, Radio France), and Laurent Marceau (European Broadcasting Union, EuroRadio).

Label Suisse
Fondation CMA
Pro Helvetia
EuroRadio
European Broadcasting Union