GenevaLunch » Geneva Area Music http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Paleo Festival: Santigold, fire eating and Tracy Chapmanhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/26/paleo-festival-santigold-fire-eating-and-tracy-chapman/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/26/paleo-festival-santigold-fire-eating-and-tracy-chapman/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:44:48 +0000 Jared Bloch http://genevalunch.com/?p=23143 GenevaLunch.com Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Not Fancy but Funky, Funny, and Fun. This was a summary of the Santigold show Saturday night at Paleo. Santigold, a Brooklyn, New York native, has discovered what those other kings of kitsch from the borough, the Beastie Boys, found out 20 years ago; chutzpah is cooler than gangsta’. Her entourage, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/26/paleo-festival-santigold-fire-eating-and-tracy-chapman/feed/ 1 Paleo Festival: SA Groove, Bhangra and silly anticshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/25/paleo-festival-sa-groove-bhangra-and-silly-antics/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/25/paleo-festival-sa-groove-bhangra-and-silly-antics/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:08:04 +0000 Jared Bloch http://genevalunch.com/?p=23079 GenevaLunch.com Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Amidst Paleo’s 35,000 concert goers on Friday, I met a private banker who had come straight to the festival from the Geneva airport, hoping to catch some of the Hip Hop acts. “In fact, I was hoping to see NTM [the French rap group Nic Ta Mere] but the lead singer [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/25/paleo-festival-sa-groove-bhangra-and-silly-antics/feed/ 0 Paleo Festival: Rodrigo and Gabriela, and Karwkahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/paleo-festival-rodrigo-and-gabriela-and-karwka/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/paleo-festival-rodrigo-and-gabriela-and-karwka/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:41:55 +0000 Jared Bloch http://genevalunch.com/?p=22998 GenevaLunch.com Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Fans enjoyed unexpectedly sunny weather Thursday evening at Paleo, in spite of intermittent showers earlier in the day. Apart from a few soggy patches at the concert sites, shows went on without a hitch, and the extra plastic sacs and rain gear packed in, went unused. Mexican virtuosos Rodrigo and Gabriela [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/paleo-festival-rodrigo-and-gabriela-and-karwka/feed/ 0 Paleo à la Inde: gypsies, tablas, harmonium and stagedivinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/23/paleo-a-la-inde-gypsies-tablas-harmonium-and-stagediving/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/23/paleo-a-la-inde-gypsies-tablas-harmonium-and-stagediving/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:10:17 +0000 Jared Bloch http://genevalunch.com/?p=22830 GenevaLunch.com Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - If your vacation itinerary doesn’t include a trip to India this year, consider a visit to the Paleo Festival. As part of its offerings, the Nyon based festival  is highlighting Indian culture, music, crafts and food this year. For your passage to India, take the train to Nyon and then the local [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/23/paleo-a-la-inde-gypsies-tablas-harmonium-and-stagediving/feed/ 0 Practical guide to Nyon’s Paleo Festivalhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/22/practical-guide-to-nyons-paleo-festival/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/22/practical-guide-to-nyons-paleo-festival/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:11:11 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=22734 GenevaLunch.com What it is: The largest outdoor music festival in Switzerland, started in 1976, with over 4.3 million concert-goers since then. In 2008, the audience was 227,000 strong, and there were 146 performances on six stages. Volunteers, all 4,062 of them, helped to make the experience a great one for all. According to a survey in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/22/practical-guide-to-nyons-paleo-festival/feed/ 2 Montreux Jazz Festival wrap-up, and now it’s time for Paleo!http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/21/montreux-jazz-festival-wrap-up-and-now-its-time-for-paleo/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/21/montreux-jazz-festival-wrap-up-and-now-its-time-for-paleo/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:44:17 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=22439 GenevaLunch.com 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 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/21/montreux-jazz-festival-wrap-up-and-now-its-time-for-paleo/feed/ 0 Montreux Jazz Festival: Solomon Burke: the house party that wasn’thttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/15/montreux-jazz-festival-solomon-burke-the-house-party-that-wasnt/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/15/montreux-jazz-festival-solomon-burke-the-house-party-that-wasnt/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:51:14 +0000 Jared Bloch http://genevalunch.com/?p=22206 GenevaLunch.com Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Solomon Burke or King Solomon as he would have it, cut a large figure at first glance both literally and figuratively last night at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Unfortunately for the audience, neither the oversized crown at centre stage, nor the red sequin dress-clad performers in his lineup were able to translate [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/15/montreux-jazz-festival-solomon-burke-the-house-party-that-wasnt/feed/ 0 Montreux Jazz Festival: Blind Boys of Alabamahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/15/montreux-jazz-festival-blind-boys-of-alabama/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/15/montreux-jazz-festival-blind-boys-of-alabama/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:46:19 +0000 Jared Bloch http://genevalunch.com/?p=22185 GenevaLunch.com Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – “We don’t have much time, so we’re not going to do a lot of talkin’, we’re gonna do a lot of singin’,” Jimmy Carter proclaimed Tuesday night (14 July) in Montreux. This call to spirituality came not from the Nobel Peace Laureate, though it well could have, but from five-time Grammy [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/15/montreux-jazz-festival-blind-boys-of-alabama/feed/ 0 Montreux Jazz Festival: Boo Boo Davishttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/15/montreux-jazz-festival-boo-boo-davis/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/15/montreux-jazz-festival-boo-boo-davis/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:35:10 +0000 Jared Bloch http://genevalunch.com/?p=22178 GenevaLunch.com Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – My second night at Montreux began with a solid dose of unadulterated Mississippi blues courtesy of Boo Boo Davis and his band members, John Gerritse and Jan Mittendorp. Davis and company are straightforward in the delivery of the goods, with not a lot of fanfare, and that’s ok. The quality lament [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/15/montreux-jazz-festival-boo-boo-davis/feed/ 0 Montreux Jazz Festival: Day 2, driving from Genevahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/15/montreux-jazz-festival-day-2-driving-from-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/15/montreux-jazz-festival-day-2-driving-from-geneva/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:28:17 +0000 Jared Bloch http://genevalunch.com/?p=22172 GenevaLunch.com Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Driving to Montreux from Geneva, a friend and I get off the autoroute in Lausanne and wind our way through Prilly, Lutry, Vevey, and other villages and past the terraced vineyards and marinas bording Lake Geneva. Watching the lake vista unfold in front of us, I think, the festival setting truly [...]

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