Yodelers meet in Basel in 2020
The city of Basel has been awarded the contract to host the Federal Yodelling Festival in 2020. Around 12,000 active yodelers, alphorn players and flag-wavers will meet in Basel from June 26 to 28, 2020.
A Federal Yodelling Festival is awarded every three years to a location within one of the five sub-associations. In 2017, it will take place in Brig. In 2020, the rotation is at the Northwest Switzerland Yodelling Association NWSJV, which had previously nominated Basel to host the event.
This will be the first time since 1924 that Basel has hosted this traditional major event for Swiss customs. At that time, it was the first ever nationwide event for yodelers. The bid from Basel is being jointly supported by various yodelling clubs from the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft as well as the north-western Swiss associations of alphorn players and flag-wavers.
During the three-day festival in Basel, the active participants are judged by a jury in various pubs and squares in the city. There is also a ceremony and a large parade on Sunday afternoon. Over 150,000 visitors are expected to experience traditional Swiss customs in the urban environment of the cultural city of Basel.
The initiators of the Yodelling Festival are also already in contact with the organizers of the "Summerblues Basel" festival, which will take place in Kleinbasel on the Friday of the Swiss Yodelling Festival. Possible synergies are being examined and sought by both sides.
