Cult dialect band Patent Ochsner win lifetime achievement award
Patent Ochsner at the Music Open Air Festival in Gampel, southwest Switzerland, in 2016 Manuel Lopez
Swiss band Patent Ochsner have been honoured for their work at the Swiss Music Awards. Their hits, always sung in Bernese German, include
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“The work of the band is characterised by a great diversity and yet an unmistakable Patent Ochsner sound: melancholic, melodic, human. This is not least thanks to Büne Huber’s expressive and poetic Bernese German,” the organisers of the Swiss Music Awards said on Thursday.
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It s time to open your fresh-smelling 2021 diary and start filling it (perhaps in pencil, to be on the safe side).
Here, we pick 10 of our favourite tips for things to see and enjoy in Brussels over the coming months. Check each venue s website for the latest coronavirus rules and any short-notice changes.
As any person who was taken to the Museum of Natural Sciences when they were seven will probably attest, it was a visit they will never forget - the herd of dinosaurs in the 19th century glass and iron building creates indelible memories. That reaction is what the museum hopes to provoke with its new permanent exhibit called Living Planet. The modern building extensions are 70 years old so the Royal Institute has been renovating the interiors over the past few years, highlighting the natural light which pervades the buildings and extending the digital capabilities of the exhibitions to create an emotional bond between the visitor and the subject matte