Federal Folk Music Festival
As a federal folk music festival (until 2007: Eidgenössisches Ländlermusikfest ; French Fête fédérale de la musique populaire , Italian Festa federale della musica popolare , Romansh Festa federala da la musica populara ) it is organized every four years by the Association of Swiss Folk Music (VSV), the umbrella organization of the cantonal and regional folk music associations, organized federal festival called.
prehistory
The historical forms of folk music emerged from popular popular music and the noise customs in winter, spring and Easter (bells and cattle peal, carillons , ratchets and rattles). Until the end of the 19th century, instrumental solo playing ( alphorn , dulcimer , zither , jew's harp , hand harmonica , Schwyzerörgeli , etc.) as well as instrumental folk and dance music in ensembles were mainly cultivated in rural and village communities.
As part of the establishment of the federal state in 1848, folk music, perceived as a means of expressing Swiss character and ancient traditions, served as a means of establishing national identity.
The folk song , folk music and popular folk and costume dances were influenced by influences from other linguistic regions and neighboring countries in quadrilingual Switzerland. Ländlermusik (also known as “Hudigääggeler”) is originally a form of folk music in German-speaking Switzerland with numerous regional styles. Nowadays, country music is also played in Ticino as well as in French and Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland .
20th century
On September 24, 1963, the Association of Swiss Folk Music was founded in Sachseln . It emerged from the dance and light music association TUMV Zurich-Central Switzerland, which was founded in 1958 and to which many well-known musicians belonged at the time. Regional and cantonal associations were founded in 1976. The association's activities include maintaining contacts with other associations in the field of folk culture, promoting training and further education and organizing and supporting events. At national level, he is the organizer of the Federal Folk Music Festival and, since 1978, the Federal Young Musicians' Meeting , which is the largest podium for young people in Swiss folklore. He publishes the association magazine Schweizer Volksmusik and operates his own internet homepage.
21st century
The 2011 Federal Folk Music Festival in Chur was attended by around 1,300 musicians and over 75,000 people, 5,000 more than in 2007 in Stans . Over 40 formations with a total of 900 participants from all over Switzerland took part in the parade. The Eidgenössische Volksmuwikfest in Chur had shown, especially through the musical quality of the young musicians, that Swiss folk music is on the up again.
300 formations with 1,500 musicians and around 100,000 spectators took part in the 12th Federal Folk Music Festival 2015 in Aarau . The prelude was an international folk music evening on Thursday. On Sunday, 1,300 participants and 55 groups marched through Aarau's old town in a parade.
Federal country music and folk music festivals
- 1. Federal Ländlermusikfest 1971 in Sargans
- 2. Federal Ländlermusikfest 1975 in Horw
- 3rd Federal Ländlermusikfest 1979 in Winterthur
- 4th Federal Ländlermusikfest 1983 in Interlaken
- 5th Federal Ländlermusikfest 1987 in Martigny
- 6th Federal Ländlermusikfest 1991 in Küssnacht am Rigi
- 7th Federal Ländlermusikfest 1995 in Appenzell
- 8th Federal Ländlermusikfest 1999 in Interlaken
- 9th Federal Ländlermusikfest 2003 in Bulle
- 10th Federal Country Music Festival 2007 in Stans
- 11th Federal Folk Music Festival 2011 in Chur
- 12th Federal Folk Music Festival 2015 in Aarau
- 13th Federal Folk Music Festival 2019 in Crans-Montana
literature
- Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser , Marcel Cellier , Mario Müller: Swiss folk music in the annual cycle . Society for Folk Music in Switzerland GVS, 1991–93
- Hanny Christen : Swiss Folk Music Collection , 11 volumes, Mülirad Verlag, Altdorf 2002
- Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser: The folk musical instruments of Switzerland . Atlantis Verlag, Ziirich / Freiburg im Breisgau and VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1981
- Max Peter Baumann: Library for ethnomusicological literature in Switzerland . Amadeus, Winterthur 1981
- Cyrill Schläpfer: Ur-Musig , CSR Records CSR 91511, DVD 2003
- Dieter Ringli: Swiss folk music. From the beginning around 1800 to the present . Mülirad, Altdorf 2006, ISBN 9783033008267
Web links
- Max Peter Baumann: Federal Folk Music Festival. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Association of Swiss Folk Music
- House of Folk Music
- Society for Folk Music in Switzerland
- Society for Folk Music in Switzerland: Swiss dance music between 1830 and 1960 from the estate of Hanny Christen (PDF; 20 kB)