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When it was announced at the Spring Paléo press conference that Sting would be playing at the festival this year, it was also revealed that the programmers had been waiting many, many years to get him on the line up. Last night, the third night of Paléo, on a hot evening and in front of [...]
Photo above – Broukar – copyright Paléo/ Lionel Flusin. Review of Wednesday’s night Paléo by Jonas Parson. After a great start on Tuesday, the weather and the bands were there again on Wednesday to make sure everybody enjoyed their evening. The weather was even warmer, the bands even crazier and people everywhere seemed like they [...]
Photo above – C. Nelson-Pollard. ”Warpaint” from Los Angeles, playing in the Chapiteau tent last night There are many ways you can get to Paléo, whether it is by unicycle, or in a supermarket trolley – see pictures below! For those who want to go by more traditional methods, the Paléo website lists all of these [...]
A review of Tuesday night’s Paléo by by Jonas Parson. Back on the Paléo grounds! After missing out on Paléo last year (trekking in Ladakh does seem like a good excuse for missing the festival), it was with much emotion that I set foot on the Asse plain to discover the 37th edition of the [...]
“This is the third time we have played here at Paléo and it’s a great place, in fact, it’s just beautiful”, said Alex Kapranos, lead singer of Fran Ferdinand who kicked off the first night of the festival in style. Indeed the lyrics to one of their new songs ”Right thoughts, right words, right action” summed [...]
Last week Jonas Parson caught up with Nyon rock band “The Deadline Experience” . He began by chatting to Antoine, one of the founders and bass player in the band who will be playing at the Détour (i.e. the stage dedicated to promoting Swiss bands on the Paléo grounds) with their melancholic, yet feisty rock on [...]
Photo above: Daniel Rossellat, centre, president of Paléo, Laurent Essig, front, head of HES-SO The University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland plus HES-SO students. This year the students have built a “city” out of fifty shipping containers for the festival’s duration. “The sunflowers are splendid, the weather forecast is great so it’s all looking [...]
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 [...]
Musical tuition for adults and children.
Classical and Jazz concerts.
German, English and French teaching school
in centre of Nyon.
Private Bankers in Nyon
Independence, transparency and security
Lake Leman International School Morges. Read article on school here.
International school in the centre of Lausanne
for 11-18 year olds
