Raye, PinkPantheress and Deep Purple to headline 60th Montreux Jazz Festival

Pop singer Raye, electronic star PinkPantheress and 1970s rock band Deep Purple are among the headline acts for the 60th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival.

The festival will take place on the Lake Geneva shoreline in Switzerland from July 3 to 18, with further performers including Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Lewis Capaldi and Sting.

Veteran stars Van Morrison and James Taylor will also perform at the event, along with rapper Loyle Carner, Swedish pop star Zara Larsson and pioneering soul band The Isley Brothers.

Other performers include hip hop collective The Roots, singer John Legend, South African singer Tyla, US pop singer Conan Gray, trip hop star Moby, soul singer Joy Crookes, and indie folk singer Aldous Harding.

Jazz musician Marcus Miller will reunite musicians from We Want Miles! during his performance in tribute to Miles Davis, alongside Billy Cobham and Gregory Porter.

French disco pioneer Cerrone will be one of the festival’s closing performers, with his orchestral Disco Symphonic project.

Raye’s third consecutive performance at the festival will come after she released her Live At Montreux Jazz Festival vinyl in 2024, a recording of her performance at the festival that same year, and her latest studio album, This Music May Contain Hope earlier this year.

Her performance, which will open the festival, will see her joined by an array of special guests, while the festival’s Auditorium Stravinski will be transformed into a completely new stage configuration for the first time in its history for the show.

Deep Purple are a mainstay at the festival having performed on 10 occasions, most recently in 2024, having written arguably their most famous song, Smoke On The Water, about a fire at Lake Geneva in 1971, when they were recording the album Machine Head (1972) in the area.

Tickets for the festival will go on sale from April 1 on the festival’s website.