Street Artists

On with the music and carnival fun!

Complementing the Geneva Festival, the lakefront comes to life with bands and street artists. A show within a show – not to be missed.

Gueules Sèches. Weekend of 3 and 4 August.

Traveling entertainement

The 40 musicians of Gueules Sèches from the north of France and their colourful repertoire of modern music will be among those enlivening the quayside on the first weekend of the Geneva Festival, both with their bright costumes and the originality of their body movements. Regular participants at major events across Europe at venues such as Nice, Nantes, Stuttgart, Gdansk, San Sébastian and Sofiok (Hungary), they’ll be creating the sounds of the tango and the polka, as well as Santana, blues, and of course marches.... As they like to say "Honni soit qui mal y pense"

« De Steltenlopers van Merchten ».
Weekend of 10 and 11 August.

Provisional starting time around 3:00 pm.

For more than half a century the Royal Society of Steltenopers van Merchten has been introducing the world to the art of stilt walking. Clothed in the Belgian tricolour, 8 to 12 clogmaker’s wives and a joyous brass band accompany around 30 walkers on stilts. Enacting historical pageants and processions on stilts up to 12 feet high, they also stage fascinating mock battles on stilts.

« Ons Verlangen ».
Weekend of 10 and 11 August.

Provisional starting time around 3:00 pm.

The "Ons Verlagen"" troupe exists simply for the pleasure of making music for the public and themselves. This concert band includes a group of percussionists, trumpeters and bagpipe players, who together form a magnificent and unique ensemble of around 90 musicians.