The 26th Pacific Coast Swiss Yodeling & Singing Festival is a four day celebration of Swiss music and culture featuring yodeling, singing, alphorns, buechels, cowhorns, accordions, a hackrett, tallerschwinging, huge cow bells and more.

Swiss singing clubs from San Diego to Vancouver, BC, the Edmonton Swiss Men's Choir from Alberta, Canada and the Doppelquartett "Choerli" from Aargau, Switzerland will be participating in what is also being called “Swissfest 2008”.

The centerpiece of the four-day Festival is the Grand Concert scheduled for this Friday night, July 18th, at 7:00pm at the Keller Auditorium in downtown Portland.

Tickets to the Concert are available through TicketMaster.

On Saturday, July 19th, the Festival moves to the Club Paesano Cedarville Park in Gresham where each singing society will present a short program of songs and yodels. There will be a typical Swiss parade (Umzug) with national and singing society flags, Brown Swiss cows, marchers ringing huge cow-bells, singers in their traditional Swiss costumes, alphorns and traditional whip cracking.

For more information on the 26th Pacific Coast Swiss Yodeling & Singing Festival, check out the official Swissfest 2008 website.