Nick Cave, Sting, Moby and more headline 60th Montreux Jazz Festival

Nick Cave, Sting, Moby, RAYE, Tyla and Deep Purple at Montreux Jazz Keystone-SDA

On Tuesday, the Montreux Jazz Festival unveiled the programme for its 60th edition and return to its iconic venues. Headlining the line-up from July 3 to 18: Nick Cave, Sting, RAYE, Moby, Deep Purple, The Roots, James Taylor, Van Morrison and Tyla and Conan Gray.

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“This is a special year for two reasons: we’re celebrating our 60th anniversary and our return to the Convention Centre,” festival director Mathieu Jaton told the media. After a two-year absence, audiences will be returning to the Festival’s two iconic venues at the brand-new Montreux Music & Convention Center (2M2C): the Auditorium Stravinski and the Montreux Jazz Lab. The 2M2C will also house a 1,000-seat Electro Club.

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For this 2026 edition, the 250,000 or so festival-goers expected to attend will have a choice of 67 concerts, including 39 Swiss exclusives. “The programme will be a crossroads of generations, styles and continents, bringing together emerging voices, icons of current pop culture and monuments of jazz, rock and hip-hop,” says the festival’s director.

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