Family & Kids - Music during Corona Lockdown, Hackathon, Culture Tips

Our Family & Kids correspondent Laure Audidière shared with us her music introduction class with her toddler during corona lockdown. Maybe you like jazz and dislike rock, or vice versa? But how do you know which is which? Laure created her own entertainment instead of frantically trying to keep up with all the tips received daily via numerous channels. Listen to all the details in her segment here.

Samuel Oliphant, a reporter with The English Show, had a fulfilling experience participating in the Versus Virus Hackathon. The virtual Hackathon had the opportunity to work with 5000 people from all over the world, collaborating on solutions to problems created by the global Covid-19 Pandemic. Supported by over 50 sponsors, the Hackathon divided people into over 100 teams working on specific issues confronting populations. Sam's team was specifically focused on "Destressing Parents During Covid-19". The process he was involved with ultimately led to a proposal for a Stress Tracking app that made it easy for even tech-phobic users to constructively use technology to manage their stress. Read his complete report here.

We had loads of practical information - including information from the Federal Council - for you in our show on March 24th - check out all the details here.

On the 31st March show, we listed ways of supporting your local bookshops, record shops, museums, cinemas and so on - check out all the details here.

This week, we'd like to shout out fantastic Basel musician Anna Aaron, who is streaming a live concert on Wednesday, 8th April, at 20:15 on website "Bajour - Gärn gschee Kultur". You can make donations during the concert - all donations go straight to Kulturklinik (a Basel artists' website and online shop) and Basel artists.

Speaking of supporting art and culture, Swiss organisation Petzi has up the "Petzi Community Fund", a solidarity fund for impacted clubs and festivals. Petzi currently represents 190 music clubs and festivals in 21 cantons and three linguistic regions. All donations will go to any members in need.

If you'd like to support local shops or restaurants, head over to crowdfunding platform Lokalhelden.ch. Type your postcode into the "PLZ" box and you'll find the places closest to you.

Basel's experimental music centre Gare Du Nord is offering a sound delivery service, with new links every day to performances from around the world.

For non-mainstream books on art, film, photography, literature and fashion as well as children's books, postcards and even pasta and wine, go to Basel bookshop Pep + No Name's website.

Jazz fans, head over to Basel Jazzcampus's website for "The Art of Time: An Academic Interview Series by Max Frankl Featuring: Jeff Ballard, Malcolm Braff, Larry Grenadier and Mark Turner". Wonderful interviews with jazz musicians.

And classical music fans, Basel's Symphony Orchestra is hosting "Basel At Home" concerts on their website.

To support the national music scene, our music theme today was all about Swiss bands. We played:

Crimer - Follower

One Sentence. Supervisor - Algo Rhythm

Saint City Orchestra - A Toast

Bell Baronets - Gone for Good

Pedestrians - Future Past Memories

Lord Kesseli & the Drums - Chemical Mother

Death By Chocolate - Tell Me What You See

Pegasus - I Take It All