Blue Balls Festival Lucerne (Open Air Festival in the city)

What took place for the first time in the evening of September 19, 1992 with an audience of 300 on the old steamboat "Stadt Luzern", became one of the largest music festival in the German-speaking part of Switzerland with approximately 100,000 visitors over nine days. The incredible ambience around Lake Lucerne with the Open-Air Pavilion, the Culture and Convention Center Lucerne and The Club in the Schweizerhof Hotel is what makes the Blue Balls Festival unique. The festival presents a total of 100 shows, with top-notch international Blues, Jazz, Soul, Funk, World Music, Rock, and Pop acts as well as exclusive exhibitions of renowned photographers from the world of music. Featured photographers in the past years were Danny Clinch, Gered Mankowitz, Michel Comte, Isabel Snyder, Mick Rock and Gavin Evans.

All Festival venues, i.e. KKL, the pavilion and the Schweizerhof Hotel, as well as Lucerne Main Station and public parking facilities are located on the Lucerne lakeshore and within five minutes walking distance from one another. Should you decide to take the train to Lucerne and back, you could save 20%: RailAway combo tickets are available at a discount at your nearest train station or by calling Rail Service at 0900 300 300 (CHF 1.19/min.). For more info, visit www.railaway.ch. For hotel information and reservations, call the Lucerne Tourist Board at +41 (0)41 227 17 27, or visit www.luzern.com