Freiburg Culture Prize for Tonverein Bad Bonn
The State Council of the Canton of Fribourg has awarded the Tonverein Bad Bonn the Culture Prize of the State of Fribourg. The club was awarded this prize of CHF 15,000 for its program and its international reputation in today's music scene.
For 27 years, Daniel Fontana, the founder of the club, has been committed to providing an original, varied and challenging music program, supported by Patrick Boschung since 1998. With their annual program and the annual festival - the Bad Bonn Kilbi - they have made a name for themselves and earned a reputation that has made the municipality of Düdingen internationally renowned in the music scene and one of the most sought-after concert venues in the country.
According to the canton, Bad Bonn brings together "musicians from Switzerland and abroad who set new trends, as well as a broad audience from near and far and programmers from all over the world". For its particularly creative program in all musical genres, it has already received many awards in recent years (Gégé d'Or in 2005, Atec in 2009, Cheers from the Migros Culture Percentage and the Fondation Suisa in 2017).
The Fribourg State Prize for Culture was established in 1987 to "honor a person or a group of people who have distinguished themselves through their commitment in the field of culture or to reward a cultural worker for their overall work". The Culture Prize is awarded every two years by the State Council. In 2016, it went to the painter and artist Guy Oberson from Lentigny.
