The Wingrower`s Festival

This festival is celebrated once a generation, - each 25 years - in Vevey, on the north-eastern shore of Lac Léman - Lake Geneva. The above picture shows the 1855 festival. Around four thousand musicians, dancers, performers, technicians, stewards, ... are involved in the success of the festivities.

The festival is dedicated to the winegrowers (French Viticulteur, Swiss dialect: Vigneron. Swiss German: Weinbauer). The best winegrowers of the generation are selected in a comprehensive process that lasts for several years and is organized by a Vineyard Committee. This selection comprises about 10 men (at that time, as far as I remember, no women ...) who are honoured as the kings of the festival.

Audio elements

The audio elements following hereafter are few songs and melodies from the 1977 edition of the festival. I picked them among many others according to my own taste. Short explanations to them and to the festival are provided in the following document that should clicked upon to be opened.