Dear all,

The club is organising the following live concerts this autumn at the Auberge des Vergers 

Sat 8th October Haneke Twins and Shadowplay doors open at 21h00

Sat 5th November Miss Proper and the Moving targets and Diracula doors open at 21h00

Sat 3rd December Iberian Pigs and Danegeld doors open at 21h00

For more information contact Simon

The CERN MusiClub concerts at Auberge des Vergers are back! This time with two more bands: Haneke Twins and Shadowplay.

The concert will happen on Saturday, 8th of October 2022, with music starting at 9:00 PM.

All info here!

After a two-year hiatus, the CERN MusiClub is very pleased to announce that the Hardronic Music Festival is back!

For more than 30 years, Hardronic has been an opportunity for CERN staff, students, users and their friends and families to come to the site and enjoy live music, delicious food and cool drinks. This year's edition, featuring nine of the CERN MusiClub's finest bands, will take place on Saturday, 23 July 2022 on the Restaurant 3 terrace on the Prévessin site. Music will start at 3.00 p.m., and there will be lots more on offer to entertain you.

Thanks to the kind support of the CERN Staff Association and Management, entry to the festival is completely free. A regular free shuttle bus will also be provided from the Meyrin site thanks to the SCE department. What's more, 100% of the profits from the bar will support the work of AidforAll, a local charity helping poor communities with basic needs, education and emergency health care in Viet Nam, India, Laos and, most recently, Ukraine.

For more information, please check out the festival website: http://cern.ch/hardronic/

The CERN MusiClub is pleased to announce that, as part of the “Fête de la musique” 2022, the club will be organising “Music on the Lawn” on Saturday 18 June on the terrace of Restaurant 1, on the Meyrin site. Music will start at 14h and finishes around 18h.

“Music on the Lawn” is a free rock concert featuring bands from the CERN MusiClub. This year’s event, the first since 2019, will feature RPM2, Diracula, the Canettes Blues Band and Shadowplay.

After a two-year hiatus, the CERN MusiClub is also planning this year's Hardronic Music Festival to be held on 23 July on the terrace of Restaurant 3. We invite you to save the date and stay tuned for full details coming soon.

Dear all,

As you may have seen, CERN announced the transition to COVID level 2 (Yellow) as of Monday 7th of March and this means that on-site club activities can be restarted.

It is important to stress that all members must strictly follow the sanitary rules agreed with the HSE COVID taskforce last October to prevent a situation where we are forced to close our doors again. In particular, please note that, despite the easing of rules in Switzerland in recent weeks, CERN still require masks to be worn at all times.

Rules for the LARGE LOCALE:

• Only club members can use the room.
• A maximum of 8 people are allowed in the room at the same time.
• Members have to reserve the slots via the MusiClub Booking System. The reservations will be used for contact tracing in the event of new COVID cases breaking out.
• All members must use the alcohol solution by the entrance of the locale to disinfect their hands.
• Everyone (including singers) must wear masks at all times. Used masks should be thrown in the specific bin provided.
• All singers must use their own microphones.
• The use of wind instruments (including harmonicas, etc) is forbidden.
• All members must stand at least 1.5m from each other.
• All windows must remain opened during the practices.
• Each band must nominate a responsible person who must make sure that all sanitary rules are respected during the rehearsals.

Rules for the SMALL LOCALE:

• Only club members can use the room.
• Only ONE person is allowed in the room - so for solo practices only.
• Members have to reserve the slots via the MusiClub Booking System. The reservations will be used for contact tracing in the event of new COVID cases breaking out.
• All members must use the alcohol solution by the entrance of the locale to disinfect their hands.
• Even though you are alone in the locale, members should wear a mask at all times. Used masks should be thrown in a specific bin close to the entrance of building 52.
• The use of wind instruments (including harmonicas, etc) is forbidden.
• As there is no ventilation in the small locale, a new schedule was put in place to comply with CERN COVID rules. The new slots are:
  • 07h-09h
  • 12h-14h
  • 17h-19h
  • 22h-24h
• Note that the 3h gap between slots is mandatory in order to be compliant with COVID rules. Use of the room during these mandatory gaps may result in unwanted consequences.

All updates on these rules will be informed via email, but you can also check the up-to-date version on the website.

If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with us.

Cheers,
    the MusiClub board,
    Greg, Pedro and Tom

Dear all,

The next Annual General Meeting of the CERN MusiClub will take place on Thu 24th March at 18:00. The meeting will be held via Zoom.

Since the club has been mostly closed, the meeting agenda will be (again) rather short:

• MusiClub news
• Treasurer's report and approval of accounts
• Board elections
• AOB

If you have any other club matters that you think should be discussed, please let us know before the AGM.

During this AGM we will be electing the MusiClub board for the next year. Therefore, all club members who have an affiliation with CERN (staff members, users, contractors, alumni, and retirees) are encouraged to step up for the board elections.

Cheers,
    the MusiClub Board (Greg, Pedro, Tom)

Dear members,

As you may have seen from the CERN official communication, as of Monday 6 December, CERN will be moving to COVID Level 3 - Orange.

This unfortunately means that all club activities are forbidden on site once again, so we are forced to shut the doors of our rehearsal locales as of next week. As a result, we have cancelled all bookings blocked all slots in the booking sheet until further notice.

It may not be the end of the year we expected, but we hope that 2022 will be a better year for all of us and that we can open the locales again as soon as possible. We will let you know as soon as we have news.

We take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and healthy Christmas break.

Cheers,
Greg, Pedro and Tom
  your MusiClub board

Dear all,

Over the past months we have been working with HSE workgroup responsible for ensuring that all CERN premises and activities are safe for personnel. After some iterations, we finally came to an agreement for the measures required to safely open both locales.

It is important to stress that all members must strictly follow the rules to prevent a situation where we are forced to close our doors again.

Rules for the LARGE LOCALE:

• Only club members can use the room.
• A maximum of 8 people are allowed in the room at the same time.
• Members have to reserve the slots via the MusiClub Booking System. The reservations will be used for contact tracing in the event of new COVID cases breaking out.
• All members must use the alcohol solution by the entrance of the locale to disinfect their hands.
• Everyone (including singers) must wear masks at all times.
• All singers must use their own microphones.
• The use of wind instruments (including harmonicas, etc) is forbidden.
• All members must stand at least 1.5m from each other.
• All windows must remain opened during the practices.
• Each band must nominate a responsible person who must make sure that all sanitary rules are respected during the rehearsals. We ask all bands to reply to us and nominate a responsible person in charge of enforcing the rules mentioned above.
• Used masks should be thrown in the specific bin
• Please note that there is a new automatic gate at the entrance to the clubs zone. Outside of working hours, access is only available with a CERN badge. For members who do not have a CERN registration, after 19h or at weekends you will need to ring the guards on the intercom and ask for permission to enter. Otherwise please contact us to arrange an external registration to get an access card.

Rules for the SMALL LOCALE:

• Only club members can use the room.
• Only ONE person is allowed in the room - so for solo practices only.
• Members have to reserve the slots via the MusiClub Booking System. The reservations will be used for contact tracing in the event of new COVID cases breaking out.
• All members must use the alcohol solution by the entrance of the locale to disinfect their hands.
• Even though you are alone in the locale, members should wear a mask at all times.
• The use of wind instruments (including harmonicas, etc) is forbidden.
• Used masks should be thrown in a specific bin close to the entrance of building 52.
• As there is no ventilation in the small locale, a new schedule was put in place to comply with CERN COVID rules. The new slots are:
  • 07h-09h
  • 12h-14h
  • 17h-19h
  • 22h-24h
• Note that the 3h gap between slots is mandatory in order to be compliant with COVID rules. Use of the room during these mandatory gaps may result in unwanted consequences.

Note that in the Large Locale regular slots are still reserved for bands that had them in previous years. We know that a lot has changed in the last year, so please log in to the booking system and update your bookings if you do not plan to keep using these slots.

We ask all bands to reply to us and nominate a responsible person in charge of enforcing all rules mentioned above. We remind you that all bands without a responsible person will not be allowed to use the room.

After a big break, we would also like to thank you all for your patience and comprehension regarding the current situation.

If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with us.

Cheers,
the MusiClub board,
Greg, Pedro and Tom

Dear all,

We hope you are all doing OK.

As you may be aware, CERN's COVID level dropped to "level 2" on the 19th of July:

https://hse.cern/alert-level/general-level-2-yellow

At this level, indoors on-site club activities are authorized subject to compliance with a set of sanitary instructions. We are currently working on a solution for this so that we can have the rehearsal rooms available again. Until this procedure is complete and the measures approved, access to the rooms unfortunately remains blocked.

Furthermore, we would like to inform you that, during the closure, the floor of the large locale has been repaired and we are now restoring the room with all the equipment that you need to play. By the time we figure out all the sanitary instructions needed for the club to function again, the rooms will be fully ready for you!

In the meantime, we ask you to be patient for a few more days, having in mind that you will hear from us as soon as we have news.

Cheers,

Greg, Pedro, Tom