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Photo above – crowd at Paléo 2011. There was a mad rush for Palèo tickets when they went on sale yesterday at midday and festival organisers announced that it took just 5.5 hours for all tickets to be sold-out. Concerts for the Sunday sold-out in 14 minutes, those for Thursday, Friday and Saturday in less than 45 [...]
Photo above of the Paléo Buddy App. A phone application with all the info on this year’s Paléo. “Paléo is going to be a multicoloured festival this year” revealed Daniel Rossellat in front of the multi coloured fesival poster at the 2012 Paléo press conference today the 17th April. This year the conference was held in the Globi Union [...]
The 2012 poster for the Paléo music festival was revealed yesterday. Designed by Aurélien Farina from the University of Applied Science -Art and Design in Geneva (HEAD, HES – SO), the design won the annual competition organised by the school and Paléo. This winning design which will set the overall look of the 37th Paléo edition and will be featured in various forms [...]
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 [...]
In front and behind each stage at the start of every Paléo concert, there are always a handful of photographers taking shots of the bands, the singers and the action. Many of these official photographers work with the big photo agencies such as Keystone and Reuters etc. However, Paléo also employs three photographers to record the events of the 6 day festival. One of these is [...]
Paléo finished last night here in Nyon with a big firework display to end the 2011 edition. This year, the festival hit the 5 million spectator mark since the festival began in 1976. Photo above – Joaquin Diaz in concert in the Dome tent . Audio report summing up festival You can hear a summing up of the six days [...]
Friday night’s Paléo is reviewed by Jérémy Binz who went to see bands performing on the smaller stages at the festival. Check out out his review of Wednesday night at Paléo here. The weather brightened up a lot more on Friday afternoon that it soon became actually quite sunny at Paléo and even wearing jeans seemed a little too much. The sun helped [...]
There was a significant Cuban influence to the music at some of Thursday night’s concerts at Paléo. Firstly, the group “Afrocubism“ blended traditional Cuban sound with music from Mali to an audience in the Chapiteau tent. Later on, over in the “Dome”, the very talented Raul Paz from Cuba played to a packed audience and to much applause. “One of the best concerts so far this [...]
Photo above: The crowd watching Portishead. Each year Living in Nyon, features reviews from other writers who give their impression of Paléo. Last year Jonas Parson, the “barefoot writer”, reviewed each evening’s concerts. This year its the turn of Jérémy Binz, a 20 year old student at the University of Geneva (studying for a degree in International Relations). Jeremy is Swiss/British and lives in [...]
Here are a few images of the second night of Paléo. Full report on the evening, Angus and Julia Stone, Portishead, etc coming up soon. Above - Los de Abajo performing in the Dome tent last night All photos - Catherine Nelson-Pollard
Scottish country dancing in Nyon! Time to get the kilt out! # Follow @lifeinnyon
