Funkaroo

Funkaroo's own events page keeps a public log of where the band has played, going back to 2013. Once the 2 upcoming dates that get printed twice on the page are counted once, the archive holds 76 distinct entries: a set at Bülach's Bundesfeier (Switzerland's national day, marked every 1 August), 9 separate nights on Insel Lützelau, rooftop and hotel bars in Einsiedeln and Davos, a mountain restaurant beside the Titlis cable car in Engelberg, and a run of city clubs and bars around the upper end of Lake Zürich. 13 of the 76 are logged only as "Privatanlass," a private event with no venue named. Not one of the 76 is logged as a wedding.

The site's own description of itself matches that record. Its about page lists the occasions it can be booked for in a single line: Stadtfest, Dorffest, Vernissage, Geburtstag, Hochzeit, Firmenevent. Hochzeit, wedding, is the 5th word in a list of 6, sitting between a birthday party and a corporate event, and nothing anywhere else on the site elaborates on it. The stage-type list on the same page runs Festival, Openair, Club, Bar, Lounge, Restaurant, Badi, Insel, Schiff, Skihütte: a lakeside pool bar, an island, a boat, a mountain hut. This reads as a working live act built for a public gig circuit that also takes private bookings, not a business built around weddings.

Funkaroo plays in 3 sizes, and it names them itself: funkaroo 5, funkaroo 4 and funkaroo 3. The 5-piece is vocals, keys, bass, guitar and a live drummer. The 4-piece keeps the guitar but swaps the drummer for, in the band's own words, computer-controlled drum arrangements. The 3-piece drops the guitar too, running vocals, keys and bass over the same programmed drums. The band is based in Rapperswil-Jona, at the top end of Lake Zürich, and its about page names 55 towns it plays across German-speaking, French-speaking and Italian-speaking Switzerland, from Basel and Chur to Lugano, Neuchâtel and Genève.

The same 2 speakers whether it's 3 musicians or 5

Funkaroo publishes an actual technical rider rather than describing its gear in adjectives, a 3-page PDF dated 2026 that lays out exactly what each format needs and what it can bring itself. The vocal chain is fixed across every size: a Shure Beta 58A on the lead vocal, a second Beta 58A on the bassist's harmony vocal, a Shure SM58 on the keyboardist's. Both keyboards, a Clavia Nord Stage 2 and a Yamaha Modx m6, run in stereo. In the trio, drums come from a MacBook running programmed backing tracks through a stereo line, not a live kit; the rider marks the guitar and the whole drum mic set, a Shure SM57 on the amp, an Audix D6 on the kick, an Audix i5 on the snare, 2 Audix ADX51 overheads, as "not with Trio." Book the 5-piece and all of that gets its own mic and its own player.

What matters most for a private reception sits underneath both diagrams. The rider gives 2 versions of every stage plan: one where the venue supplies its own speakers, subwoofer and front-of-house mixer and the band plugs in, and one where Funkaroo brings its own PA, 2 Electro-Voice ELX 115P powered speakers and a single EKX 18SP subwoofer. That self-contained rig is identical whether it's the trio or the full quintet on stage, sized for a room rather than a festival field. A couple booking a hall or a tent with no house sound gets the same modest rig a small club date would get, not scaled-up festival gear; a couple booking a venue that already runs its own PA gets the band plugging straight into that instead. The rider names no lighting rig at all, on either page, for either format.

3 names on the site, 2 more nobody bios

Funkaroo names 3 of its musicians and gives each a line. Carolina Marty, the singer, is described on her own page as multilingual by upbringing, with a voice "as varied as the colours of Latin America." Bassist Thomas Vögeli gets "a solid groover with a good dose of funk," his technique credited to years of touring with other bands, none of them named. Keyboardist Benno Schmuki is "a virtuoso with a fine ear for harmony," credited with the patterns and solos that give the songs their drive. None of the 3 profiles gives a date, a prior band, or a discography to check any of it against. The guitarist and drummer who complete the funkaroo 5 lineup aren't named or introduced anywhere on the site; a couple booking the quintet knows who sings and who plays bass and keys, and nothing about who else is standing on stage with them.

55 towns, 1 language, and a fixed set list

The touring list on the about page is an actual roster, not a vague claim of national reach: Basel, Bern, Luzern and Zug through the German-speaking core, Chur, Davos, Arosa and St. Moritz into Graubünden, Lugano, Locarno and Bellinzona in Ticino, Lausanne, Montreux, Neuchâtel, Biel/Bienne, Fribourg and Genève across French-speaking Switzerland. Every page on the site, though, is written in German. There's no English version of any page, no translated repertoire, and nothing anywhere stating the band announces or MCs a reception in English; the only English on the site is the 8 words in its own navigation menu. A couple wanting ceremony announcements or dance-floor patter in English for an international guest list has nothing here to confirm it.

The repertoire page lists 32 songs, an actual set rather than a genre description: soul and funk staples (Chain Of Fools, Let's Stay Together, Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Play That Funky Music, We Are Family), 2 Tina Turner numbers, 2 Zucchero tracks sung in Italian and 1 Mana track in Spanish, and newer covers like Norah Jones's Don't Know Why. Nothing on the page says whether the list is negotiable, whether a couple's own first-dance song can be added, or whether any genre gets turned down; it reads as the band's fixed working set rather than an open offer. Funkaroo publishes no price anywhere on the site: every route through it, the contact page, the booking line repeated in every footer, ends at a phone number or an email address, never a rate.

What that leaves is a band that plays regularly and is still booking gigs into 2026. Contact is a single mobile number, "+41 79 604 26 90, Thomas," not an events office, which fits an act whose own record shows far more nights on an island bar or a hotel rooftop than at a wedding. A couple wanting exactly what the rider shows, 3 or 5 musicians and a compact, self-contained PA that stays the same size whichever lineup plays, has something specific to check against. A couple wanting an English-speaking host, or proof this act has actually played a Swiss wedding before, will have to ask directly, because funkaroo.ch answers neither question.