Switzerland’s legendary Montreux Jazz Festival has announced the details of its landmark 60th edition, curating a lineup that honours its musical history while spotlighting rising voices.
Among the first confirmed names for the festival, set for 3-18 July, are Raye, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Deep Purple, The Roots, Sting, Lewis Capaldi, John Legend, PinkPantheress, Tyla, Conan Gray, and Zara Larsson.
Raye will open the festival with a special performance, joined by a curated line-up of guests. The show will launch the transformation of the Auditorium Stravinski with a new stage configuration, a festival first, with the venue going on to host a variety of acts across the festival.
Unique match-ups at the festival include The Isley Brothers with The Roots (11 July); Aldous Harding with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (5 July); Hemlocke Springs and PinkPantheress (6 July); and Loyle Carner with Vulfpeck (17 July). Van Morrison and James Taylor will close this year’s programme on 18 July.
Elsewhere in the mix, Moby will make his Montreux debut, while Deep Purple will return to the stage more than 30 years after their own debut. Charles Lloyd, who performed at the very first edition in 1967, will also return this year.
The Montreux Jazz Lab will feature artists including Angus & Julia Stone, ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, Sienna Spiro, Dermot Kennedy, Young Mikko, and Marcus Miller.
The festival draws 250,000 music lovers from all across the world to the Lake Geneva shoreline, evolving from a purely jazz festival to a multifaceted, multigenre annual event. Artists who have graced the stage over the past six decades include Etta James, Quincy Jones, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, James Brown, and Kendrick Lamar, to name a few.
Outside of the Swiss festival, the company has staged editions in Brazil, the USA, Singapore, Monaco, Japan, China, and most recently, South Africa. It is also growing its its audio-visual arm, Montreux Media Ventures, capitalising on its historic archives.
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Last year, CEO Mathieu Jaton unpacked the event’s role as a cultural institution and the shifting metrics of success in the modern landscape.
“The Montreux brand has become more powerful than the 16-day event in July,” he said. “This evolution is both a challenge and an opportunity. It forces us to think differently and ask: ‘Who are we speaking to? What story are we telling? What value are we bringing?’
“We’ve chosen to embrace our legacy while rethinking our formats. We’re not trying to replicate what worked in the past but to bring our values to life in the present,” he says, adding, “In this new era, the success of an event is no longer measured solely in tickets sold – but in cultural impact, audience loyalty, and the ability to create meaning. It’s a paradigm shift. And perhaps that’s where the future of festivals will be played out.”
Montreux, Switzerland
3 – 18 July, 2026
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