Comfort at Caribana and Lou Reed coming to Nyon.

Latest news – April 1st Caribana first night Wed 9 June now sold out!
(this is not an April fool’s joke)

Comfort at Caribana

The Caribana music festival, due to take place at Crans sur Nyon from 9-13 June, has revealed its full line up of performers for the five day music fest by the lake. On the agenda are Deep Purple, Madness, Hell’s Kitchen, Sum 41, Micky Green, Faithless, Yodelice, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Sean Paul, Mama Rosin* Polar, Thomas Dybdahl, Neil Halstead and many more bands and singers, plus a special guest still to be announced.

A still lake by the Caribana pitch last week

This year Caribana celebrates its 20th birthday and to mark the big occasion, the organisers have decided to put the emphasis on comfort for the festival goers. There will be fewer tickets sold to provide more space on the pitch; there will be a series of “unplugged” concerts within a quiet area called Scène de la Plage, right on the lake side; and the concerts on the different stages will be timed so each group’s music doesn’t run over and clash with the other bands on other stages. Also there will be more seating near the food stalls to allow festival goers to enjoy the different food in comfort.

Caribana last year, music amongst the trees and by the lake.

Caribakids day

Sunday the 13th is Caribakids day (from 13.00-18.00), where there will be lots of activities for children including a quiet corner for them to listen to stories read by volunteers from the library at Crans. There will be a workshop for children held inside a yurt, including an opportunity for them to make music. As ever there will be a boum (dance/disco) for the children and face painting, bouncy castle, climbing wall and a mass release of balloons.

Caribana on iPhone

New to Caribana this year is the availability of the programme on an iPhone app.
Also, ticket holders will be able to use regional public transport free of charge to and from the festival from the Wednesday to the Saturday (including the NStCM train) Buses to Geneva and Lausanne will be available for a special price of 10 chf per journey.

Environment

Around half of the buses that will bring in the sponsors and artists to the festival will operate on natural gas.
This year as in the last two years, there will be a deposit of CHF 2 on the gobelets (the drinking containers) when purchasing beers/drinks etc. This is to encourage less rubbish in the ground and to enable the containers to be recycled.
It promises to be a fabulous festival, more details on the daily line up will be posted here on Living in Nyon nearer the time.
Tickets are now on sale. The Caribana website has details of all the ticket outlets, and you can also buy them online. Tickets don’t sell out as fast as they do for the Paléo music festival but they do sell out, so don’t leave it too late!
* Living in Nyon has been following Mama Rosin since they first played in Nyon many years ago in the small venue in the old town called Club 1306. See previous post. They are superb live! Check them out.

News from Nyon’s film festival – Lou Reed coming to Nyon

Latest news from Visions du Réel is that the singer (and now film maker) Lou Reed will be coming to Nyon to present his first film called ”Red Shirley” for its world premiere. (note there are still a few places left for the talk by Mr Perret director of Visions du Réel on 6th April here in Nyon, see post below)

This is what VDR’s press release says about the film.

When Lou Reed, the singer of the group “Velvet Underground” and author of the albums Berlin and Transformer, stood behind a camera for the first time at the age of 68, one might have thought he would seek to probe the world of music. Not at all. His first documentary film will focus on something else: the face and the narrative of his cousin, on the eve of her 100th birthday.

Sitting next to her, sometimes even kneeling, whispering his questions close to her ear, Lou Reed, assisted by Ralph Gibson, records the story of an incredible destiny. Often showing amazement, like a child, at the events Shirley has lived through, laughing at her quirky, frank or irritated replies, frequently asking her to repeat just to make sure, he films an affectionate and moving portrait, interspersed with some photographs.

While Shirley’s narrative first touches on the ordeal of two world wars and the disappearance of her family “whom Hitler took care of”, it takes an unexpected turn. We learn that she left Poland on her own in 1938 at the age of 19 years, with only two suitcases and a few dollars in her pocket to travel to Montreal – where in six months she learnt not French but the mandolin before finally slipping off illegally to New York, buried under the goods on a truck. There she was to become a dressmaker and to lead the workers’ demands hence her nickname Red Shirley, which gave the film its title. An extraordinary figure of women’s emancipation, captured in all her authenticity.
The film will be shown on Tuesday, April 20 at 20:30 at the Théâtre de Marens.

Comfort at Caribana and Lou Reed coming to Nyon.