Between legendary artists including Bob Dylan, Lionel Richie and Iggy Pop and icons of new generations such as Lil Nas X, Gayle and Sam Smith, the Montreux Jazz Festival will offer a great musical gap this summer.
The 57th edition of the festival, which will be held from June 30 to July 15 on the shores of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps in Switzerland, will cross “genres and generations”, the organizers said when unveiling the program on Wednesday.
Bob Dylan will pass through Montreux this summer to present his album
Rough and Rowdy Ways
released in 2020. At his request, the room will be fully seated to reflect the intimate atmosphere of his tour.
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Exactly thirty years after his only concert at the Festival, Chris Isaak will make the immortal Wicked Game
resonate again
in Montreux, a hit that has entered the collective memory, taken up in particular by REM With the appearances of Lionel Richie, Simply Red and Seal , the festival will also present three decades of
"hit makers"
at the crossroads of soul and pop.
Sam Smith and Lil Nas X
As for the new generations, the British star Sam Smith will play for the first time in the prestigious Auditorium Stravinski, eight years after his concert at the Lab, a hall of the festival dedicated to the exploration of current and future sound trends.
Like Sam Smith, Lil Nas X, who will also play at the festival, has become an LGBTQ+ icon who is exploding music stream counters.
There will also be artists who are very popular on TikTok, such as Stacey Ryan in the groovy pop register and Cavetown, Maisie Peters or Gayle “in
its more indie or emo incarnations”
, indicates the festival.
Latin American music, with which the festival has a privileged relationship, will be represented by two different generations: the internationally successful Colombian star, Maluma, and the unmissable Gilberto Gil, the first Brazilian artist to have set foot on the Montreux stage in 1978. .
Several evenings will explore a musical genre through the encounter between two generations.
So for example, on the soul-jazz side, the legendary Mavis Staples will celebrate her 84th birthday on the very day of her concert with her friend Norah Jones, back in Montreux 13 years after her last visit.
Punk-rock fans will not be left out: Iggy Pop, author of a new album at the start of the year, will be preceded on stage by Génération Sex, bringing together the original members of Génération X and the Sex Pistols.