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Half a million watch city at its best on live TV

After extensive rehearsals, the almost two-hour live broadcast of "SF bi de Lüt" started on time at 8.05 pm on Sunday evening, in the competent hands of local-born presenter Nik Hartmann in front of 2,500 gathered on the Landsgemeinplatz and half a million at home watching on TV.
 
The weather was perfect and there was much excitement in the area before the programme started on a packed lakeside square in the old city. The team of "SF bi de Lüt" ensured that the seated crowd (since moving behind the camera was not allowed) cheered, waved and applauded at the right moment, with one couple caught kissing blissfully, unaware they were being filmed.
 
There was musical entertainment from the perfectly tuned Wiesenberg Yodelling Club and singer Yasmine Mélanie, amongst others, not forgetting a duo with Dani Häusler's deft fingers on a clarinet blown by Nik Hartmann. There was much about the local cherries including a re-enactment of the traditional racing round the narrow streets with the ladders used to pick them as well as their use in making sausages and jams. Maria Greco told us of the legends about the lake people with comic relief provided by jokes told by children in Zug dialect. There were authoritative anecdotes by city-guide Beat Dittli, who showed us the murals on the church at Oberwil, and Bruno Birrer, who gives guided midnight tours of the graveyard in Cham as well as ensuring the streets of the village are clean as he collects litter from the streets without payment. Zug's wealth was portrayed by huge mock gold bars being carried into a huge safe (never to be seen again!). The Capuchin nuns of the Gubel convent in Menzingen also featured, assuring everyone that at least one nun is at prayer in any 24-hour period. The only local figures who did not seem to feature were the politicians...


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