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Caribana (the summer music festival down by the lake in Crans sur Celigny) have announced that Keziah Jones will play as part of the line up on Saturday 9th June 2012. Caribana will also be opening a permanent festival office in Nyon on the 2oth December and they invites music lovers to visit the office that evening during the late shopping [...]
Tuesday evening in Nyon saw the official launch of the book “Living along Lac Léman”. Thankyou so much to all those who came to the Villa Thomas at the COV for the vernissage/launch. Photos above. Happy book fans! The venue in the stunning lake side setting made it the perfect place to launch the book. It also gave readers of [...]
Photo above (cnp). Backing singers Plan B It was another good night at Caribana on Friday, the weather stayed mostly dry and the crowd were in an “end of the working” week party mood. There was an eclectic mix of music on offer from Plan B, to Morcheeba, OMD, to Swiss Solange la Frange (from Vevey). Morcheeba [...]
Caribana the music festival continues over in Crans sur Nyon (report of last night – see end of this post) . Tonight’s line up include Plan B (winner of the 2011 Brit Awards best male artist award), Morcheeba, Solange le Frange, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the dark and more, see full programme here. A reminder that [...]
Even though there was a bit of a chill in the air and mud on the ground, it didn’t stop music lovers from heading off to Caribana last night. Boots and wellies were very much in evidence as were rainjackets (free rain ponchos were made available at the Caribana stand. Photo above cnp – The [...]
Caribana, the first of the summer music festivals in the Nyon area begins tonight down on the lakeside in Crans sur Nyon. At the moment of going to press there were still tickets for sale for all five nights. The weather forecast is set to improve just a little this afternoon, but best take rain gear and [...]
Photo above: The “biotiful” range of Caribana T shirts 2011. The full line up for the 21st edition of Caribana music festival is now out and reveals a programme of music and styles to suit all ages. For those that want to reminisce, ”Get Down On It” and boogie, Kool and the Gang will be performing on the Grande [...]
Photo above: the famous sunflower field at Paléo – an annual tradition In just over three weeks time (on April 5th), the line up for the Paléo music festival will be revealed. For those of you new to the Nyon area, Paléo is Europe’s second biggest outdoor music festival. It takes place just above Nyon and attracts [...]
Whether it is at Paléo, Caribana, the Usine a Gaz, Javal or Longirock, Nyon residents are very lucky to have a rich seam of music festivals and venues on their doorstep. Two years ago, Living in Nyon spotted a Geneva based band called Mama Rosin perform at the small 1306 club in the old town [...]
If you are a Nyon resident and you want to take your recycling to the Nyon déchèterie (recycling centre- dump), from now on you will need to show this this sticker/label in the photo below to enter the grounds. These labels have recently been produced by the council for Nyon residents only. At the moment, people from other communes have also [...]
Musical tuition for adults and children. Classical and Jazz concerts.
Lake Leman International School
A new IB-school in Morges.
Local Nyon Hairdressers.
Claire speaks English.
Real estate for the international, English speaking community
International school in the centre of Lausanne
for 11-18 year olds
A centre of excellence for students with learning differences
British Cheese for sale in Switzerland
Your Ideal College
Guidance for entry to US+UK universities.
Some great workshops at the Geneva Writers' Conference today. # Follow @lifeinnyon
