Roundabout Sixties-Coverband

Roundabout Sixties-Coverband names all 5 of its current members on its own site: Bruno and Cécile Driutti, Manuel Kägi, Nils Rindlisbacher and Karin Bertogg. Read past the names, though, and the line-up you'd actually book is younger than the band. Cécile started the project in spring 2009, after watching Dirty Dancing and deciding to cover songs from that world. Bruno, Cécile and Manuel go back to that start, with Manuel joining on drums after roughly half a year of early rehearsals. Original singer Sabrina Büchi left in 2018, after nearly 9 years and around 170 concerts, and Karin took her place. Original bassist Chrigi Bachmann left in 2021, after 11 years, and Nils replaced him. So the 5 people you'd actually hire have shared a stage only since 2021, layered onto a project the band's own site traces back to 2009.

On stage, Cécile and Karin sing, Bruno adds a male voice from behind his electric guitar, and Nils and Manuel hold down bass and drums, what the band's own homepage describes as 2 women's and 1 man's voice over guitar, bass and drums. The billed sound is doo wop, twist, surf, beat and soul alongside straight rock and roll, and the volume the band promises for itself is "angenehmer Lautstärke", a comfortable, unaggressive level rather than a full-arena one.

A borrowed songbook, plus one original written for Eurovision

The full song list sits on its own page, tagged by style and year for anyone who wants to check a title before booking; the site doesn't publish a total count, so treat the catalogue as extensive rather than a fixed number. It leans on the era's obvious names, Elvis Presley and the Beatles chief among them, alongside Chuck Berry, The Supremes, Roy Orbison and Dusty Springfield. Homepage picks include "Lollipop," "The Wanderer" and "Surfin' USA," Rock and Roll staples like "See You Later Alligator" and "Johnny B. Goode," and 2 songs the band credits to Dirty Dancing, "Be My Baby" and "Wipe Out."

There's also a real original in the catalogue: the band wrote "Let our dreams come true" in Sixties style in 2012 specifically to enter that year's Eurovision Song Contest voting, a detour no cover band strictly needs to make. 2 more originals round things out, "Snowman" and "Let's live it up," the latter also lending its name to one of the band's own CDs. The recordings themselves are dated and specific: an 8-song demo self-recorded in a school hall and at the bassist's home in 2010, a 17-song live album cut during a concert at the Baronessa in Lenzburg in 2013, and "Roundabout, live at the studio," 15 songs, in 2018. That's a longer discography than most function bands bother building.

Wedding evidence on the site is genuinely thin, a handful of testimonials sitting inside a much longer list of company parties, birthdays and village festivals. What's there is specific rather than generic. Michael and Barbara's testimonial from their wedding apéro in Hilfikon, dated 2 June 2012, is blunt: "An unserer Hochzeit veredelte Roundabout den Apéro", Roundabout dressed up their wedding apéro. Familie Oldani, married at Schloss Lenzburg on 31 May 2014, credit the band with letting them choose songs themselves: "Von der Stückauswahl, bei welcher wir mitbestimmen durften ... war einfach alles perfekt", from the song selection they had a say in, to the volume, everything was, in their words, spot on. A third testimonial, from a wedding-anniversary party rather than the wedding itself, at the Gemeindesaal in Buchs on 16 May 2015, credits the band for bringing "die perfekte Stimmung", the right mood. 3 testimonials naming a wedding occasion, against a much larger reference list, matches the band's own framing on its homepage, where a wedding is one line among a "Geschäftsanlass, Jubiläum, Apéro, Hochzeit, Trauung, Geburtstag" list rather than the headline act.

2 women, 1 man, and a quieter option if it's asked for

The electric line-up above is Roundabout's default. For a smaller or quieter moment, the band also offers an acoustic trio, guitar and vocals only, with a quartet possible depending on the occasion. Its own copy pitches this as the choice "wenn es etwas feiner, ruhiger über die Bühne gehen sollte", when things should run a bit more refined and quiet, against the full electric band, which it recommends outright for a dance evening where guests are meant to clap, sing and dance. Nothing on the site states which format goes with which part of a wedding day; that reading is a reasonable inference from their own copy, not a rule the band states. A ceremony or a quieter dinner would lean toward the trio; the dance floor after dinner toward the full 5.

An Aargau band that throws its own party every September

3 of the 5 members live in the canton the homepage claims for the group: Bruno and Cécile in Seon, Nils in nearby Aarau, Karin in Schinznach-Bad. Roundabout's own site was even built by Bruno's side business, driutti.ch, run out of that same Seon address. Beyond Aargau, the band's references and past-event archive place shows in Zurich, Lucerne, Basel and Bern, though the site publishes no travel radius or callout fee, only a request-form field asking where the event is. Recent bookings run right up to the present: a company anniversary for EWS Energie AG in Reinach on 21 September 2024, a Christmas-market slot in Unterkulm in December 2025, and a short trio set in Egliswil as recently as 4 February 2026.

Since 2012, the band has also run its own annual show, a Sixties-Night at the Chillout in Boswil, held every September except during the Corona years and typically drawing over 100 guests, many dressed for the decade. The 2026 edition is the 13th, moved for the first time to a Saturday, on 19 September. Regional Aargau papers have covered the band across the years, including as recently as September 2025, in the Aargauer Zeitung among others. None of that is wedding-specific, but it points to a working act with an actual public track record, not a name that only exists on a booking directory.

8 fields on the booking form, one of them your budget

Roundabout publishes no price anywhere on its site. Its own contact form asks for 8 things before it will quote: the date, the town, the venue, the type of event, arrival time, playing duration, desired volume, and last, the couple's own budget, so a quote comes back rather than a rate card going out. There's also nothing published about what PA or sound equipment the band brings versus expects the venue to supply, worth asking about directly rather than assuming either way.

The bigger caveat for a couple planning from abroad: every page checked here, the navigation, the testimonials, each member's own biography and the booking form, is in German only. There's no English version of the site, and nothing published about whether the band's between-song announcing, or its contracts, run in English. Drummer Manuel is credited by his bandmates as the group's announcer as well as its drummer, but no language is stated for that role anywhere. A couple who needs the whole day handled in English would have to confirm that directly; the site gives no reason to assume it either way.

What the site does offer, generously, is a paper trail most function acts don't bother publishing: a founding story tied to a specific film and a specific spring, a Eurovision detour nobody required of them, an inclusive choir the 2 founders run on the side, and members who can each tell you exactly which year they joined and who they replaced. For a couple who wants Fifties and Sixties covers played by people who have been doing this since well before most competing acts existed, and who are comfortable running the whole booking in German, that's a lot of documented history behind a single act. For anyone who needs the day handled in English, this particular site leaves that one question open.