The first great guest of the 35th edition of Blues to Bop, scheduled for July 18 and 19 as part of the Lugano LongLake Festival (July 10 - 27, 2025), will be Edoardo Bennato, a singer-songwriter who has marked the history of Italian music with his unmistakable style, overwhelming energy and countercultural message.

Lugano LongLake Festival renews this year's invitation to Swiss and Swiss rookie musicians again, inviting them to apply through the national platform Mx3.ch.

Selected projects will enter Swiss Made, which brings together Swiss art programming at LongLake.

Lugano LongLake Festival is pleased to announce the first great guest of the 45th edition of Estival Jazz (July 10 - 12, 2025): Jack Savoretti, with nearly two decades of career and millions of copies sold worldwide, will present his new album Miss Italia, written for the first time in Italian, on Saturday, July 12 in Lugano's Piazza della Riforma.

Extremely positive outcome of the 14th edition of Lugano LongLake Festival, the Summer City Festival that took place from July 11 to 28 in some of the city's most beautiful locations. A large and varied world animated by citizens, visitors and tourists made the 2024 edition memorable, which for the first time, in addition to Estival Jazz and Lugano Buskers integrated the historic Blues to Bop event.

From July 24 to 28, the city center becomes a large open-air stage for street performers. We discuss this year's edition - titled "Volcano" - with Ilenia Ricci, Buskers programming manager along with Paride Bernasconi, Damiano Merzari, Vittorio Ondedei and Gianmaria Zanda.

The flair and creativity of more than 50 Buskers artists at Lugano LongLake Festival .Events scheduled July 22-28

The first weekend of LongLake Festival was able to give incredible emotions to the audience and moments of great music with performances by Diodato, Gil Evans Remembered, Bokanté, Tom Walker, Hiromi, Gary Clark Jr. and Cory Henry, guests of the 44th edition of Estival Jazz.

Find out the map of the 2024 edition.

A press conference to present the future 2024 edition of the LongLake Festival was held today at 11 a.m. at Villa Ciani in Lugano.

Midi Time is born this year: a series of intimate gatherings that invite the public to spend a different lunch break than usual to devote time to themselves, to dialogue with each other and to deepen their understanding. It is an opening journey of discovery of stories, local realities, creativity and introspection: an invitation to take time for the important things.

Blues to Bop is pleased to announce the extraordinary international lineup that will overwhelm Lugano July 18-21 with its infectious energy. The 34th edition of this historic festival promises, as per tradition, four days of engaging music and in-depth cultural encounters with artists, all with free admission.

The reggae world of Alborosie & Shengen Clan lands at the LongLake Festival. Italian pioneer par excellence of reggae music and culture Alborosie will perform in Lugano on July 15 at the Boschetto - Parco Ciani in Parco Ciani. Opening the evening will be Ticino-based electronic reggae outfit Sun Over Waves.

More big names are added to the lineup of the 44th edition of Estival Jazz, which on the opening night of Thursday, July 11, will host Diodato, winner of the David di Donatello for the second time, with the opening of the talented Swiss artist Chiara Dubey. Also confirmed for July 12 in Piazza della Riforma is the participation of U.S. keyboard maestro Cory Henry.

Blues to Bop will feature the talented up-and-coming artist D.K. Harrell directly from Lousiana. Harrell will be in Lugano on July 19 and 20 at Piazza della Riforma and Piazza Cioccaro as part of Switzerland's longest-running blues festival, now in its 34th year.

Estival Jazz is pleased to announce an exceptional concert by Tom Walker, one of the most promising voices on the international music scene. The artist will perform in Lugano on July 12 on the Piazza della Riforma stage.

Another name in the lineup, Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, singer-songwriter and guitarist reborn Fantastic Negrito after a dramatic accident in 1999 that left him in a coma and losing part of the movement in his right hand and then went on to collect three Grammy Awards. The singer will perform on July 20 in Piazza della Riforma as part of Blues to Bop.

Opened a call for artists from the Swiss music scene to perform as part of the LongLake Festival from July 11 to 28.

Kicking off the festival's busy schedule will be the 44th Estival Jazz between July 12 and 13. The first confirmed big guest is award-winning guitarist Gary Clark Jr. who will perform on Saturday, July 13, in Piazza della Riforma.

Alex Britti Live, will stop at the LongLake Festival with his summer tour. Only Swiss date in 2024.

Lugano LongLake Festival, scheduled from July 11 to 28, announces the extraordinary presence of pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi among the guests who will take part in the large urban open air in the heart of summer 2024.