The cantonal government of Uri has decided to continue the House of Folk Music from 2013 to 2015 and has increased the contribution from CHF 50,000 to CHF 70,000.
The Folk Music Festival Association will be holding the Altdorf Folk Music Festival for the third time in 2013. The next Alpentöne will take place from August 16 to 18, 2013.
The Heinrich Danioth Art and Culture Foundation in Uri has also awarded the Uri Work Prize. The musical actor and performance artist Rolf Sommer ("Ewigi Liebi"), who grew up in Bürglen, will be able to spend four months in New York in 2014.
