RAYE, Nick Cave, PinkPantheress, and more lead line-up for Montreux Jazz Festival's 60th edition

The headline acts announced today include RAYE, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PinkPantheress, Tyla, Deep Purple, The Roots, Lewis Capaldi, John Legend, Sting, Marcus Miller, James Taylor, Conan Gray, Lewis Capaldi and Zara Larsson. RAYE is set to open the festival with a special performance, joined by a special programme of curated artists, co-created with by Audemars Piguet. This will be RAYE's third consecutive year performing at the festival, with this being the first year that the Auditorium Stravinski will receive a new stage configuration for the show.

Additionally, the festival has unveiled a stacked bill of artists representing pop, jazz, hip-hop, and rock, including Aldous Harding, Loyle Carner, Sienna Spiro, Joy Crookes, Yebba, Danny L Harle, and more.

Founded by Claude Nobs with its very first edition held in 1967, Montreux Jazz Festival is an annual music festival which celebrates emerging and contemporary acts, while also paying tribute to legendary artists. With roughly 250,000 drawn to the Lake Geneva shoreline for the festival every year, it has seen performances from the likes of Etta James, Quincy Jones, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Ms. Lauren Hill, Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, James Brown, Kendrick Lamar, Leonard Cohen, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Nina Simone and more.