20 – 22 August

Jval Openair 2026

FURTHER AFIELD

Jval Openair presents a dynamic open-air music festival showcasing an eclectic mix of emerging and established acts across multiple stages. The announced lineup features Uzi Freyja, Tendinites, Adieu Marcel, Deadletter, Honeyglaze, Parker Leftlover, Valencia Grace, Copycat and Lum, plus late-night aftershows with Cazoule & DJ Zinzin, Aurore & Zou_Diak and Club Katel. Scenic concepts and aftershow programming are developed by Club Katel in collaboration with Jval, offering immersive staging and club-infused atmospheres.

Chemin de,
Serreaux-Dessus, Begnins, Switzerland

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Photo Credit: DR

Tuesday 18 August, 19:00

Listening Salon — Les Ostinés

Performances

Buvette IASP

Les Ostinés present an intimate chamber programme spanning Renaissance repertoire to Latin songs, exploring the harmonic and rhythmic links between early music and contemporary popular forms. Using historical instruments—traversos, recorders, violoncello, viola da gamba, baroque guitars and percussion—the five young performers (Lila Walther, Ayoub Aidani, Zoé Kettiger, Vincent Miche and Aurélien Peccoud) shape a refined, playful rhetoric. The ensemble, composed of Conservatoire de Musique de Genève students, favors close textures and expressive nuance, inviting attentive listening.

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Wednesday 19 August, 21:00

Aja Monet — Jazz Poetry

Performances

Scène Ella Fitzgerald

Brooklyn-born poet and musician Aja Monet weaves spoken word and jazz-inflected song into a charged, intimate performance. Her voice combines surreal imagery, precise diction and raw emotional clarity, supported by subtle electronic textures and live instrumentalists. Collaborations with leading jazz and soul figures inform a multidisciplinary approach that blends improvisation, rhythmic poetics and melodic hooks. The staging favors close, cinematic lighting and spacious soundscapes, inviting listeners into a communal, urgent evening of reflection and fierce tenderness.

In English.

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12 – 23 August

Les Voüéces

Performances

Théâtre de l'Orangerie

Directed by Louis Bonard, Les Voüéces follows two reclusive women, Rodogonde and Frénéjus, who live atop a high tower. Louis Bonard and Michèle Gurtner wrote and perform a piece in an enchanted pseudo‑medieval tongue where voice, embroidery and play weave a poetic fable. The performance probes silence, the passage of time, guilt and the unsettling presence of other voices — ghostly, culpable or absurd — with a blend of darkness and dark humour.

In French.

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20 – 22 August

Elvett — New Album Preview

Performances

Auditorium Ansermet

Elvett gathers four female voices, a grand piano and a brass quintet into an eleven-piece ensemble showcasing a new set born from a week-long residency. Anchored by the radiant voice of Lyn and the luminous productions of Alain Frey, the music moves between soul, jazz and sacred-inspired sonorities. The project features Soraya Berent on piano, Gaspard Sommer on analog synths, Chloé Baumgartner and Capucine Mugnier on backing vocals, plus a brass section. Coproduction: Barbarella Records and EMA; supported by the City of Geneva.

August 20 – Free – rehearsal 16:00, Q&A 18:00
August 22 – Paid admission – preview concert 20:30

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6 – 27 August

Hip-Hop Jam (DJ & Dance) sessions

Performances

MAH

An open hip-hop jam where DJs and dancers converge in an improvised celebration of street culture. In collaboration with Association Breakdance Genève, the session foregrounds rhythmic interplay, call-and-response exchanges and physical storytelling. Expect pulsing beats, spontaneous battles and moments of collective intensity as performers trade moves and musical cues. The atmosphere is raw and electric, alternating between intimate grooves and explosive bursts, inviting both participants and listeners into shared momentum.

Thursday 6 August, 18:00
Thursday 13 August, 18:00
Thursday 20 August, 18:00
Thursday 27 August, 18:00

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Thursday 20 August, 19:00

Cultural Picnic with Label HU

Performances

Buvette IASP

To mark its 21st anniversary, Geneva’s label HU presents a night of five short, immersive experimental electronic performances. Artists ENOIA, DA SAZ, GOODBYE IVAN, VINCENT HÄNNI and POL offer sculpted sound worlds that blur rhythm and texture, using spatialised electronics and subtle lighting to conjure uncanny atmospheres. The program favors intimate, exploratory set pieces that invite deep listening and physical presence. A shared meal by Tito (Peru) accompanies the evening, adding a communal dimension to the sonic journey.

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