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Humility – Transformation – Migration

18 July – 6 September 2025

Nigel Kennedy

Thursday 29 July 2021, Gstaad Festival Tent

Today's Music

Thursday 29 July 2021
7.30 pm, Gstaad Festival Tent

«When I'm 64»: Nigel Kennedy, who was born in Brighton on 28 December 1956, 64 years ago, couldn't have chosen a more appropriate title for his 2021 summer tour! A lovely paradox: it was one of the first songs written by Paul McCartney, on the family piano at 20 Forthlin Road when the Beatle member was only fifteen or sixteen years old; he would later explain that in addition to the “snapping” sound of the word “sixty-four”, he wanted to gift it to his father as a prelude to his retirement! Kennedy, whose debt to Yehudi Menuhin is undeniable, is here as a “friend of the family”: classical or electro strings, there are countless “legendary” concerts of his that are engraved in gold lettering in the memoirs of the Festival.

Nigel Kennedy, Violin
& Band:
Rolf Bussalb, Guitars
Beata Urbanek-Kalinowska, Cello
Piotr Kulakowski, Double Bass
Krzysztof Dziedzic, Percussion

Music by Bach, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Nigel Kennedy (among others) 
 80'
CHF 160/135/95/40 

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