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Buskers Bern 2024, 8. – 10. August 2024

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It was a great start of the festival!

The first day of the festival was a great success, with events taking place on stages and in the streets of the old town. Today, the festival continues with a varied programme. 

Photos: Behind the Scenes 2025

What does it take to pull off Buskers Bern? Photos from festival photographer Michael Beckmann offer an insight. 

Presale now open!

The festival bracelet and program booklet are now available at our presale offices. You will only find the performance times and venues of the various artists in the program booklet. 

We Need YOU!

To make the festival a complete success, we are currently still looking for 60 more volunteers. Can you donate a few hours to the festival on two evenings? Register here. We look forward to your registration! 

Program & more

In addition to the main programme of Buskers Bern, there are other venues where exciting interactions take place, young visitors are amazed and experiments are carried out in front of an audience. 

You are in demand

For the organisation of the next festival edition, August 7 – 9, we still need exactly 184 volunteers. Are you in? That would be great! 

Program Buskers Bern 2025

We are delighted to present this year’s programme to you! From Bal Folk to Forró and Troubadour Brass to Acrobatic Circus Comedy and Puppet Theatre, there’s something for everyone. 

Staff wanted!

Become part of Buskers Bern. We are looking for around 300 volunteers for the days of 7 – 9 August. Kids are welcome too! Register now – we look forward to seeing you. 

Bubble & Bracelets

We proudly present our new graphic for the 22nd Buskers Bern and open the online pre-sale. We look forward to spending three exuberant, summery festival days with you. 

Main programme is complete

We’ve been working all winter on Buskers Bern’s Festival Line-up. A total of 38 groups from Brazil to Iran and Finland will be performing in the main programme. We are very pleased to announce two acts today. 

Apply now for the youth stages, the Bizaar action market and the children’s programme

Do you have an interactive project for children or an unusual, hilarious, participatory idea that you would like to try out? Then apply now for the children’s programme and the Bizaar action market. If you are under 25 and would like to try out your project in front of an audience – then the youth stage is the right place for you! 

Join the Buskers Bern association

Become part of Buskers Bern or give a membership as a gift. 

Buskers souvenirs for christmas

Do you still need a great gift idea – how about a Buskers drybag (Aaresack), festival shirt or little rucksack? 

Apply now!

The application window for the main programme for 22nd edition of Buskers Bern, 7 – 9 August 2025, is now officially open. 

It was a blast!

A fantastic, peaceful festival with more than 300 shows – that was Buskers Bern 2024. 

Saturday at Buskers Bern: Kids program from 3 p.m. – all artists starting at 6 p.m.

Tonight is the last Buskers day – come along. 

Tips, forays and interviews

The media review provides impressions of Buskers Bern 2024. 

Program change: The last pirate is coming to Bern

The rock-punk-trash one-man show Disco Pirata” from Zurich is coming to Bern with its pirate. 

Tomorrow’s the big day…

Since Tuesday, our headquarters – the Schlachthaus Theater Bern – has resembled a beehive. Artists have been arriving here non-stop. A beautiful, colourful merriment. And tomorrow at 6pm it all starts: International artists put the lower old town of Bern in a spectacular summer mood. Join in! 

Presale now open

As of today, purchase of festival booklets & bracelets is possible at numerous presale offices in Bern. The performance times and venues of the groups are only published in the printed booklet.