The Echolot Festival turns offices and shops into concert venues

In Lucerne, blueprints meet basslines as the Echolot Festival turns architects’ studios and tiny theatres into stages for rising musicians. The three-day celebration of sound returns for its fifth edition on October 30. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The festival opens on Thursday evening with concerts in the old crematorium at Friedental Cemetery and in the Stadtgrün greenhouse on Sedelstrasse. Both are new among the festival’s 14 venues, most of which are not typically used for concerts, a key part of the concept since the first edition in 2021. This year, the Neubad cultural centre will serve as the festival hub for the first time, making use of the club, bistro and pool of the former indoor swimming facility. Sound spectrum Musically, the event is focussing on diversity with around 40 artists. All of them should offer "something new" musically, "something to discover", as communications manager Sam Aebi told the Keystone-SDA news agency. The sonic ...