42nd Open Air Edition 2025 –
Gurten Festival announces Will Smith, Nina Chuba and Franz Ferdinand
An American megastar, a super talent from Berlin and local export hits are among the first acts announced.
Published today at 6:00 p.m
The first acts for the Gurten Festival 2025 are known – and 15 percent of the 4-day passes have already been sold.
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- The Gurten Festival 2025 will take place from July 16th to 19th.
- Nina Chuba opens the festival on the main stage on Wednesday.
- Franz Ferdinand and Will Smith are further highlights on the following days.
- The Waldbühne exclusively presents Swiss artists.
From July 16th to 19th (Wednesday to Saturday) the Gurten Festival will take place for the 42nd time on Bern’s local mountain. Currently 26 of 65 acts are known. In addition to the main stage and the tent stage, the festival is also programming the Waldbühne – exclusively with Swiss artists -, three dance tents and the so-called Campfire Stage, where up-and-coming acts have a chance to show themselves in an intimate setting.
In 2023, Nina Chuba performed on the tent stage, two years later she will be programmed on the main stage.
Photo: Jan Peter
At the start of the festival on Wednesday, Nina Chuba is not picking up where she left off in 2023. Back then, the Berliner by choice proved on the tent stage that she was main stage material. In contrast to the anarchy of KIZ on the second day of the festival are the bittersweet harmonies of Lady Wray’s retro soul and Nathy Peluso’s Grammy-winning mix of bachata, salsa, pop, R&B and trap.
The Scots are coming to the Gurten: Franz Ferdinand with bandleader Alex Kapranos in Nyon in 2023.
Photo: Bastien Gallay / GallayPhoto
Scottish band Franz Ferdinand performs on the main stage on Saturday. “Take Me Out”: With this stadium hit, the Scots have set a monument for themselves and created the blueprint for a sound brand that oscillates somewhere between rock and dance and has been delighting the masses for 20 years.
His first love is music: Hollywood star Will Smith at a concert in Sydney in 2004.
Foto: Reuters / Will Burgess
A Hollywood star comes to the end of the festival. Will Smith’s film career sometimes makes you forget that his first love is music. First he released together with DJ Jazzy Jeff and rapped as The Fresh Prince, later solo and as Will Smith, creating club and global hits such as “Getting Jiggy with It” and “Miami”, which still get parties going today.
The Zurich duo Steiner & Madlaina will perform at the Waldbühne in 2025, where Swiss music has its own stage.
Photo: Dominique Meienberg
For years, the Gurten Festival has dedicated its own stage to Swiss music: the Waldbühne. In addition to local heroes like Jule
Further names for the 2025 Gurten edition will be communicated in the new year. Advance sales have been running for a month and, according to a press release, 15 percent of the 4-day passes have already been sold.
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