Kolonien
Lucerne Festival in the streets 2025
World Band Festival Luzern
Stiftung World Band Festival Luzern
Free admission
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Koloniens first ever shows in Switzerland! We will be playing every day throughout the festival! See you there!
For 20 years, “In the Streets,” the world music festival within the Festival, has made it possible for you to enjoy strolling through the picturesque alleys and narrow streets of Lucerne’s Old Town and hear the whole world making music. Groups from around the globe convene in Lucerne for a whole week to perform a variety of open-air concerts, creating a colorful kaleidoscope of sounds and rhythms. This anniversary year brings a reunion with some old friends along with many new discoveries.
With the friendly support of the City of Lucerne
The groups
Ayom (Italy/Brazil/Portugal)
Bailenga (Italy)
Claudia Masika New Project (Kenya/Switzerland)
Kolonien (Sweden)
Les Fils Canouche (France)
Madalitso Band (Malawi)
Mathias Landtwing Quartett (Switzerland)
Tribubu (Ivory Coast/Spain/England)
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steve
September 18th 2022
Excellent performance! The band played an hour and a half straight of original songs in English and their native Swedish. Creative arrangements, and top notch musicianship.
The venue was small but not cramped; hosts were friendly and attentive.
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Kolonien Biography
Somewhere between folk, pop and sing-songwriting, Swedish band Kolonien has carved their own musical universe with mesmerizing guitar and violin playing, generous vocal harmonies and captivating melodies, but above all; lyrics that challenges and asks questions.
The result is a fresh, appealing sound that brings multiple musical worlds together.
# Like The Cardigans early albums (Sonlines UK 2022)
# Top of the World Album (Songlines UK 2022)
# Impossible not to like (Lira Music magazine SE 2022)
Behind the songs we find the brothers Erik and Arvid Rask. Strongly influenced by The Beatles, Swedish folk music and their upbringing within the Swedish environmental movement, they started writing music together as teenagers. Now almost 20 years later, three internationally acclaimed albums, countless tours in North America and Europe, they are still writing songs, now together with Thea Åslund on violin.
Internationally they are called Fleet Foxes of Scandinavia and since 2022 are signed to the American label Cumbancha.
Read MoreThe result is a fresh, appealing sound that brings multiple musical worlds together.
# Like The Cardigans early albums (Sonlines UK 2022)
# Top of the World Album (Songlines UK 2022)
# Impossible not to like (Lira Music magazine SE 2022)
Behind the songs we find the brothers Erik and Arvid Rask. Strongly influenced by The Beatles, Swedish folk music and their upbringing within the Swedish environmental movement, they started writing music together as teenagers. Now almost 20 years later, three internationally acclaimed albums, countless tours in North America and Europe, they are still writing songs, now together with Thea Åslund on violin.
Internationally they are called Fleet Foxes of Scandinavia and since 2022 are signed to the American label Cumbancha.
Acoustic Roots
World Music
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