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Music and literature in Basel

When the sun sets behind the Basel Cathedral, the city’s stages come to life with atmospheric live music and superlative classical concerts.

Musical highlights

With around 30 mostly open-air stages at the heart of the city, this is probably the largest one-day jazz festival in the world.

Sinfonieorchester Basel - Streaming_MirgaGražinytė-Tyla — The Sinfonieorchester and Kammerorchester Basel deliver outstanding renditions of pieces from a wide range of composers.

Seven Baloise Session 2016 Basel — The Baloise Session is a unique music festival where international stars perform in an intimate setting to an audience sitting around candlelit bistro tables.

Der Club von der Bühne her by Beat Mattmüller — The bird’s eye jazz club is one of Europe’s most famous small jazz clubs.

Concerts and music festivals

Das Open Air Festival «Im Fluss» begeistert mit seiner schwimmenden Bühne neben der Mittleren Brücke während dreier Wochen im Hochsommer das Publikum am Kleinbasler Rheinufer.
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For three weeks in summer the «Im Fluss» Festival, with its floating stage next to the Mittlere Brücke, entertains the public on the Kleinbasel riverbank.

10–27.8.2022

Floss Festival

11–13.8.2022

Polyfon Festival

Das Basler Jazz Festival Em Bebbi sy Jazz 2010.

19.8.2022

Em Bebbi sy Jazz

20.8.2022

Jungle Street Groove

12–18.9.2022

Erasmus klingt!

Schiller - Sound Inventors am Indoor Musik-Festival Baloise Session 2014. Photo Dominik Plüss / 31. October 2014.

28.10–17.11.2022

Baloise Session

17–21.12.2022

Blues Festival Basel

Die Summerstage Basel im Park im Grünen, Münchenstein, BL.

30.6.2023

Summerstage Basel

Literature

Sound on: “Sounds of Basel” by Arthur Henry