Photo above: Courtesy ©Les Hivernales 2012 / Niall Macpherson) of The Bianca Story, performing at the club. The barefoot writer is back! Regular readers of Living in Nyon may remember the great reviews of both the atmosphere and the music from Paléo 2010 written by Jonas Parson (a.k.a “the barefoot writer“). Last year Jonas went travelling to Australia and to India and for […]
A wrist full of festival armbands, a bike and a love of music – “Ride to Live” Greg Parmley revs up to Nyon on Tuesday.
A wrist full of festival armbands on the “Ride to Live” tour – Greg Parmley at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Greg Parmley is a man on a mission. A mission to visit as many music festivals as he can across Europe in one month. He began his trip on June 24th at Glastonbury in the UK, went straight on to “Hard Rock Calling” and […]
Montreux Jazz festival begins today, Usine a Gaz reveals Autumn programme
The Montreux Jazz festival kicks off today and continues until the 16th July. The festival name is bit of misnomer as there is much more than jazz available on the programe. From the blues of B.B King (a festival regular), to hip hop, soul, rock, pop, techno, etc, there is a huge variety of music on offer. Although tickets for […]
Discovering the local arts scene with artist Stephanie Fonteyn – A new feature for Living in Nyon
Living in Nyon is delighted to announce that from July onwards, this site will feature interviews with artists, and will report on art events in galleries and venues across the region. These articles will be written by Stephanie Fonteyn, a professional artist who is based in Duillier (a village just a few kilometres above Nyon). Stephanie says her objective is “to make […]
Montreux Jazz in full flow and free Jazz in Nyon
The Montreux Jazz festival opened at the weekend with its big line up of bands and stars. However if you haven’t got tickets or don’t want to trek down to the other end of the lake for music, don’t forget there are free music concerts in Nyon every weekend in July and the first week […]