Festivals near Lausanne

Perched above the Lavaux vineyards and facing Lake Geneva, Lausanne lives a musical double life: the velvet memory of jazz that has flowed across the Riviera ever since the neighbouring Montreux Jazz Festival, and a far rawer underground forged in clubs like Le Romandie and the Docks hall. The city breathes electro and techno as much as guitars, and its crowd, used to open-air lakeside stages, happily heads to Nyon for the Paléo Festival or down to the Crans-près-Céligny shoreline for the Caribana Festival.

Around the Geneva basin the calendar moves in seasons: sprawling open-air gatherings in summer, leaner and more adventurous indie bills the rest of the year, much like LA PAILLE. Whether you follow the bass of a techno set or the voice behind a jazz standard, every edition reshuffles its line-up. FestT works out your FestiScore, the affinity between a festival's bill and your favourite artists, and keeps dates and ticketing current so you never miss the announcement that matters.