The U.N.'s cultural agency has listed Switzerland’s long-celebrated yodeling among 67 traditions honored its list of ...

Swiss Alpine Music. Alphorn and Yodel. Produced by Lukas Jaggi and Christian Strickler for swissinfo (2006). As a Swiss Abroad, how do you feel about the emergence of more conservative family policies ...

Switzerland: the country of mouth-watering chocolate, cheese fondue and precision clockwork set against the backdrop of breath-taking mountainous scenery. Accompanying all of this is the soundtrack of ...

The players formed a wide semi-circle at Tracouet above the ski resort of Haute Nendaz in southern Switzerland for the country's annual alphorn competition, which celebrates the musical instrument in ...

The alphorn was originally a tool for herdsmen, who used it for signalling and for calming their animals. Original alphorn music is therefore usually simple in structure, and reflects the mountain ...

A Swiss Alphorn Concert featuring Swiss singers, yodeling, alphorns, guitars, and a flugelhorn will share a religious concert on Saturday evening, April 27, at Conestoga Mennonite Church. This free ...

What is thought to be the UK's largest gathering of alpine horn enthusiasts has been staged in Berkshire. Eleven members of the UK Alphorn Network (UKAN) brought their instruments to Downe House ...

For some, it’s the first time they’ve seen their friends in three years. For others, it’s a chance to bring out their traditional embroidered dresses or velvet Berner jackets trimmed in firecracker ...

For Beat Heeb, playing the alphorn along B.C.'s Okanagan Lake takes him back to his boyhood roots. The Peachland, B.C., resident came to Canada in 1976 from Lucerne, a German-speaking lakeshore city ...