Yodelling festival in full voice despite record temperatures

(29 Jun 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: COMMERCIAL MUSIC, MUSIC VIDEO AND/OR PERFORMANCES MUST BE CLEARED ACCORDING TO YOUR OWN LOCAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND COPYRIGHT AGREEMENTS WITH YOUR APPLICABLE COLLECTING SOCIETY ASSOCIATED PRESS Basel, Switzerland - 28 June 2026 1. Various of yodelling club sitting in fountain and singing 2. Zoom out from another group of yodellers singing in another fountain 3. Close of two members of the group ASSOCIATED PRESS Basel, Switzerland - 27 June 2026 4. Folk band playing while people cool off in a fountain in the background 5. Pan from hands under fountain faucet to men in fountain 6. Tilt down from church to hot yodellers waiting to perform 7. Sign for church, venue for yodelling competition 8. Tilt down from church ceiling to performers from Jodlerclub Echo Basel 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Shona Holmes, yodelling competitor: “Well, I'm singing with the Jodlerclub Echo Basel, and we are one of the Trägervereine, so ‘hosting clubs’, of the Eidgenössische Jodlerfest, or the Federal Yodel Fest 2026 in Basel. And as part of that, we are here at the Martinskirche tonight and we've just sang our Wettlied, our competition song. And at the end of the weekend we will find out what grade, essentially, we got for our song which goes on a scale of one to four where one is the best.” 10. Holmes and her club singing their competition song "Weisch wie guet" composed by Emil Wallimann, with text by Brigitte Debrunner 11. Two performers from Jodlerclub Echo Basel, Freddie Byars and Freddie Conquer, attempt to sing together and get it wrong 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Freddie Conquer, yodelling competitor from New Zealand: “I’ve always loved music, and I left here as a child, and when I moved back to New Zealand I wanted to stay in touch with Swiss culture, so I joined a New Zealand-Swiss-Kiwi yodelling club.” 13. High angle view of yodellers singing in a bar 14. Various of impromptu yodelling outbreak in old town restaurant 15. Pull out from yodellers in Petersplatz, the main stage area, pan across festival plaza 16. Woman having a commemorative photo taken with her head through the cut-out of a Jodlerin (female yodeller) 17. Close of phone taking photo 18. Close of woman with face through the hole 19. Jodlerins singing 20. Yodelling club from Calgary, Canada, performing on the main stage 21. Screen showing the schedule for workshops in yodelling and flag-throwing 22. Yodelling instructor Seraina Clark warming up the workshop with mouth exercises 23. Clark drilling the crowd with chest and head voice separation 24. Clark making the crowd scream 25. Venue signage for the Schulhaus Leonhard, where the alpine horn and flag-throwing competition takes place 26. Various of Luc Vuilleumier and Pierre-André Karlen performing on the lawn 27. SOUNDBITE (French) Luc Vuilleumier, alpine horn competitor: “For us, the Federal Festival is really something, it's the pinnacle, the holy grail of the competition.” 28. Tilt up of alpine horns 29. SOUNDBITE (French) Pierre-André Karlen, alpine horn competitor: “Yes, everything is down to the widepipe (of the horn), singing in your head, and then the lips that form your pitch. The higher the pitch, the stronger you blow. It’s complicated because you have to do everything with natural notes. It’s very complicated to find the higher pitch notes.” 30. Alpine horn collective walking with their instruments 31. Tilt down from cooling spray to woman cooling her hat 32. Audience under a cooling spray umbrella 33. Flag-throwing competitors practicing in school gymnasium 35. Judging panel deliberating Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...