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At the Port franc in Sion, ten years of current music against the current

At the Port franc in Sion, ten years of current music against the current
At the Port franc in Sion, ten years of current music against the current

Posted on May 04, 2025 at 09:03. / Modified on 04 May 2025 at 09:03.

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We see it from afar – the faded metal contrasts with the green hillsides. A 15 m high tower, containers that were stacked there as on the wet platform of a dock. Except that here, no North Sea, at the foot of the mountains, the cargo is musical. It has been ten years since the frank port has stood there, a stone’s throw from Sion, where it has the pavilion of current music.

A decade, as much to say an feat for an institution that took the pandemic with full force and fighting to bring its audience on the outskirts. A birthday that the team designed as a celebration, jubilant and ambitious: on the program, 24 hours of live music without interruption, on May 17 and 18. From Saturday 2 p.m. to Sunday schedule, around twenty musicians, musicians and DJs will take turns on stage where they will distill pop, rap, rock or even techno, 100% local. “There are constant projects that are born, that we loved to welcome here. We wanted to give back to Valais music what it brought to us, ”explains the programmer of the premises, Eliott Carrel.

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