Category: Newsletter

  • Music from the Swiss Alps in the San Francisco Bay Area

    Music from the Swiss Alps in the San Francisco Bay Area

    AlphornsSF is a group of musicians interested in playing the alphorn. We meet every two weeks at locations around the San Francisco Bay Area, including at the Ferry Building in San Francisco, at Lake Merritt in Oakland, and additional locations in the South Bay and East Bay.

    Please contact us if you are interested in joining a meeting, learning more about the alphorn, or having alphorn players for your event.

  • Schwingfest in Newark

    Mary, Monika, Jonathan, and Peter at the Schwingfest in Newark

    Schwingen (Swiss Wrestling) is one of the unique sports that is very popular in Switzerland. The Aelpler Gruppe Swiss Club hosts an annual event in Newark to celebrate this tradition at the west coast of the United States.

    The Aelpler Gruppe invited Mary, Monika, Jonathan, and Peter to contribute to this Swiss tradition by playing alphorn between rounds in the tournament. Fortunately, they played well enough that the organizers didn’t get the idea to turn the wooden instruments into sawdust for the rink 🙂

    It was a great event and a nice opportunity to celebrate multiple Swiss traditions in a land far-away from their origins.