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Photo above: Caribana 2012 logo reflected in the merchandising. Caribana Festival revealed its full 2012 music programme today March 28 with, (according to Pascal Vuistiner, press officer for the festival) “an explosive cocktail of music”. This cocktail includes a mix for all music lovers, from the calm acoustic sound of Lucy Rose from the UK playing on the beach stage on the [...]
Photo above: courtesy Caribana – copyright Robert Leslie Lou Reed, Kasabian and Pony Pony Run Run are the latest names to be added to the line up for this year’s Caribana festival which will take place down by the lakeside in Crans sur Nyon from the 6-10 June. Legendary Lou Reed *returns to Nyon and will [...]
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 [...]
Scottish country dancing in Nyon! Time to get the kilt out! # Follow @lifeinnyon
