Published on 22.08.2022
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Bern » The Bernese reggae group Lauwarm has been “disinvited”, according to its own words on the social network Instagram, from a performance scheduled for Saturday evening in Bern. His name was effectively removed from the program of the Lorraine neighborhood fair. This meeting is above all a neighborhood party, explains the organizing committee: “The concert was canceled to avoid controversy.” He does not intend to speak further.
A first interruption of a concert by this reggae group singing in Bernese dialect had already made waves three weeks ago. She made international headlines. On July 18, Lauwarm replaced another group in a restaurant in the same district of Lorraine in Bern. Several spectators then claimed to feel “uncomfortable” in the face of this “cultural appropriation” of young Bernese musicians in African clothes and, for one, with dreadlocks. The people in charge of the room had decided
