About
Montreux Music is an independent website dedicated to the music of Montreux and its region. Its aim is to help people discover the town through the ties that bind its shopkeepers, residents, venues, events and photographers to music. It is also a personal way of imagining what the musical promotion of Montreux can be.
How it all began
Since June 2017, the region’s music has mostly been told on the Instagram account @visitmontreux, through posts, stories, guides and channels. In June 2023 the channel “Montreux Music” was born, a few months before Montreux joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the “music” category, in November 2023.
This work did not go unnoticed. Many public figures shared or reposted the content, among them Quincy Jones, who did so many times until his passing, Lionel Richie and Brian May. Some posts were even published in collaboration with the official accounts linked to B.B. King, George Michael and Louis Armstrong.
These formats have their limits, though. Stories vanish, and features such as Guides were removed by the platform. Hence the wish for a lasting space where everything stays easy to find. The website Montreux-Music.com was born of that need.
What Montreux-Music.com does
Each entry grows out of in-depth research and sometimes brings together facts or images the public had never seen before. The site looks beyond the big names: it is also interested in the people who helped the region become musical, in visual artists inspired by music, and in the places and events that keep it alive.
Montreux Music wants the whole town to embrace music, starting with its shopkeepers: many hold a memory, a story or a musical connection worth sharing. The town’s musical history goes far beyond a handful of artists and bands, and the ambition is to open the site, little by little, to the thousands of names tied to it in one way or another.
What comes next
Montreux-Music.com will keep growing and becoming easier to use, in keeping with a region that holds hundreds of places and has welcomed thousands of artists. There is still much to tell: high-quality events still little known, regional artists and bands to discover, and countless ways for everyone to take part.
The site also hopes to help make Montreux a destination in its own right, in the continuity of the social media work carried out in recent years. A musical stay does not stop at the edge of town: Montreux Music will open up to neighbouring communities to make it the epicentre of a journey into the world of music. With a single wish: to work for the region, its residents, its shopkeepers and its artists.