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Paleo Music Festival, near Nyon, Switzerland, a sea of music-lovers

Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Lake Geneva region’s musical summer is well underway, good for music-lovers, a bit less so for drivers. If you’re on the road between Geneva and Lausanne in the coming week, check the news for traffic jams around Nyon. Festival-goers are urged to use public transport, made easy for them: the CFF rail company is putting on extra trains and reducing ticket prices. The last train for Geneva leaves at 03:00 and for Lausanne-Montreux at 03:30. Shuttles and extra trains between the Nyon train station and the festival operate at 10-minute intervals.

The festival sold out, all 200,000 tickets, in two hours when sales opened in April. An additional 1,000 tickets a day go on sale online at the festival site, to discourage black market ticket sales.

GenevaLunch will be covering the festival daily, bringing you news and reviews.

Montreux closes on a happy note, offers listeners online treats

The Montreux Jazz Festival is over, the streets of the lakeside town are relatively quiet again, but the music plays on. Swiss public television TSR’s coverage included a collection of mini-concerts and interviews, with American virtuoso songstress Rachelle Ferrell offering an extraordinary a capella impression of the Swiss landscape.

Prince wrapped up the concert Saturday night 18 July with two concerts in the same evening – and the festival web site offers an exclusive recording of his interpretation of “In a large room with no light.”

Switcher, the Lausanne-based clothing company, sold 20,000 “sustainability” t-shirts and the festival’s organizers say a record number of tickets were sold.

An estimated 230,000 people attended the festival, with its for-pay and free concerts, but ticket sales were up 10 percent over the previous year, say the organizers, who called it an “exceptional” year.