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Top music events

From multi-day festivals with world-class acts to classical and jazz events: much to the locals’ and visitors’ delight, music of every genre booms in Bern.
Swiss Chamber Music Festival

Classical music festivals

Discover a wide range of classical music festivals throughout the Region of Bern. A varied programme of music awaits, featuring artists from Switzerland and abroad.
Jazz Nights Langnau

Jazz festivals

The choice of jazz, blues and soul concerts in the Region of Bern is immensely varied, ranging from intimate settings to big stages, castle courtyards to basement grooves.
Greenfield Festival, Ferienregion Interlaken
12 – 14 June 2025

Greenfield Festival

Since 2005, the Greenfield Festival in Interlaken has established itself as a musical highlight. Every year, around 40 bands send the crowds into raptures.
Internationales Trucker & Country-Festival Interlaken
27 – 29 June 2025

Internationales Trucker & Country-Festival

Giant trucks, motorbikes parked in precision lines, country music and line dancing: the International Trucker & Country Festival in Interlaken will quicken the pulses of modern-day cowboys and cowgirls.
Gurtenfestival, Bern
16 – 19 July 2025

Gurten Festival

The Gurten Festival has come a long way from its first event, when the stage lighting was missing, to being now one of the most important music festivals in Switzerland.
Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy
18 July –  6 September 2025

Gstaad Menuhin Festival

What began with two concerts in the church in Saanen in 1957 with Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist of the century, has become one of the largest music festivals in Switzerland: the Gstaad Menuhin Festival.
Lakelive Festival Biel
31 July – 9 August 2025

Lakelive Festival Biel

The Lakelive Festival Biel is all about the joys of summer: trying out new water sports, listening to top-quality live music, and sampling a glass of fine regional wine.
Buskers Bern
7 – 9 August 2025

Buskers Street Music Festival Bern

Creative, uplifting and energetic: Every August, around 150 artistes from all over the world transform the streets of Bern into a delightful summer open-air festival.
Seaside Sessions auf dem Niesen mit Panorama
7 – 8 August 2025

Niesen Sessions

Bring friends and family and enjoy three nights of great music set against a spectacular panoramic backdrop – at the Niesen Sessions on the Swiss pyramid on Lake Thun.
Seaside Festival, Spiez
29– 30 August 2024

Seaside Festival in Spiez

From rock legends to chart toppers and Switzerland’s very own: the Seaside Festival in the bay of Spiez on Lake Thun features an excitingly varied programme set in a unique atmosphere.
Simmentaler Bier-Festival an der Lenk
5 – 7 September 2025

Simmental Beer Festival at Lenk

Surrounded by a stunning mountain backdrop, the Simmental Beer Festival offers a fabulous atmosphere, the pleasure of listening to a wide range of live music from chill-out sounds to rock, great food with comfortable seating and a hip beer-garden feeling. And thanks to a broad array of entertainment, the festival is ideal for families too.
Country Night Gstaad
12 & 13 September 2025

Country Night Gstaad

Each year Europe’s premier country event draws the big stars of the country scene to Gstaad. Over three whole days the prestigious holiday resort in the Bernese Oberland is entirely given over to cowboys and cowgirls.
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1 January 2026

Touch the Mountains

On 1 January 2026, look forward to a full day of rousing music and a unique atmosphere in Interlaken – live and free of charge!
20 – 21 March 2026

Adelboden Live Music Festival

Experience Adelboden Live on 20 and 21 March 2026 with Bastian Baker, Gölä, Stress, Stubete Gäng, Zoe Wees and many more!