NYON, SWITZERLAND – The six-day passes, just 2,000 of them that the Paleo Music Festival sells in advance online, are now on sale.
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If you love metal, you will love this: Megadeth, Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Slayer, Motorhead and more!
Location: Jonschwil, SG
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Start date: 18 Jun 2010
End date: 19 Jun 2010
Title: Fete de l’espoir
Location: Geneva
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Description: A day for children, teens and adults to remember. The idea is that Geneva become “the capital of hope,” Thus the name of the festival. The Brit Charlie Winston and MC Solaar from France are among the musicians performing.
Date: 2010-05-22
Title: Vernier sur rock
Location: Lignon, Geneva
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Description: A three-day Swiss rock festival!
Start Date: 2010-05-07
End Date: 2010-05-09
Title: Long I Rock music festival
Location: Longirod, Vaud
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Description: An open air music festival
Start Date: 2010-05-13
End Date: 2010-05-15
Title: Pied du Jura expo
Location: Vaud
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Description: Helicopter rides, hip hop dancing, food, and more. Excellent for kids and adults.
Start Date: 2010-04-08
End Date: 2010-04-11
Paleo 2009
Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The largest open-air music festival in Switzerland, Paleo, may go smoke free.
Smoking will be banned in certain areas during the 2010 festival, Philippe Vallat, Paleo’s executive director, told 24 Heures in an interview.
Vallat and Daniel Rossellat, head of the Paleo Music Festival, told the newspaper they must comply with canton Vaud’s ban on smoking in public areas.
Title: Summer concerts in Annemasse
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
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Description: Every Saturday evening enjoy jazz at the Fantasia Park in Annemasse. The city of Annemasse is only a train stop away from trams 12, 17 and 16 from Geneva. Shows begin at 17:30.
Start Date: 16 Aug 2009
End Date: 29 Aug 2009
Title: Music festival in Vernier
Location: Vernier, Geneva
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Description: An outdoors music festival in the municipality of Vernier in Canton Geneva.
Start Date: 09 Sep 2009
End Date: 13 Sep 2009
Title: Jazz on the beach: Hermance
Location: Hermance, Geneva
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Description: Enjoy the view, Lake Geneva and free outdoor jazz concerts.
Date: 15 Aug 2009
Santigold brings Brooklyn to Paleo
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’.
Private banker by day, Hip Hop fan by night arriving at Paleo
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 is still under arrest, so they are cancelled,” the Swiss banker, Damian told me.
Damian, who lived and worked in India, was upbeat when I shared with him the lineup for the evening including a Bhangra performance and South African Hip Hop.
Achanak welcomed concert-goers on Friday night with their dance-friendly mix of Bhangra and electro music.
Achanak's irresistable dance rhythms - photo, Jared Bloch
Unbridled energy with La Pulquería at Paleo 09 © Paleo Festival 2009
Paleo Festival Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The crowd at Paleo couldn’t keep up with La Pulqueria Friday 24 July. The energy level on the stage was reminiscent of the Large Hadron Collider at Cern – well, when it works – and lead singer Huracán Romántica exhorted the crowd in very passable French to dance, to DANCE. He even went into the crowd and gave people liberal shots of tequila from a bottle in an effort to get them fired up.
Paleo cup washing operation. © Paleo Festival Nyon 2009
Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Last year, festival-goers to the Paleo Festival Nyon discarded 1.2 million plastic cups in six days. Drinks, hot and cold were sold in cups that ended up in the garbage, or more likely on the ground. The festival’s organizers decided that things had to change.
Enter Ecocup, a French company. For the 2009 edition of Paleo, Ecocup is supplying the festival’s 52 bars with 100,000 clean, reusable, plastic cups a day with the Paleo logo on them. When you buy a drink at Paleo this year, you pay a CHF2 deposit on the cup, returnable at any of the bars. Observant visitors will see some of the 80 workers, most of them part of the Paleo volunteer workforce, processing the cups on the way in on the left, about 100 metres before the main entrance.
GenevaLunch spoke to Ecocup’s David Arnaud Friday 24 July.
Paleo crowd arriving on Thursday evening - Photo, Jared Bloch
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 set the tone for the evening, with a near hour-long guitar duel featuring their own material as well as covers of “Stairway to Heaven,” and “Oye Como Va.” See GL’s Paleo Photo Album
Paleo crowd, 2009
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 2008, 59 percent of concert-goers came from the Lake Geneva region.
Title: Fete de la Musique
Location: Lake Geneva region, France, Switzerland
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Description: Thousands of musicians, hundreds of concerts and stages, all in celebration of the summer solstice.
City streets are flooded by music and revelers. Music is not limited to the streets, but can be heard in cathedrals, churches, concert halls, and in clubs!
Each city offers their own programmes and local newspapers publish inserts to help concert goers find their way around. Music is not the only thing you will find on the streets.
If you have never been to one of these “fetes” prepare for a long evening.
Start Date: 19 Jun 2009
End Date: 21 Jun 2009
Title: Open air theatre festival
Location: Renens, Vaud
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Description: At Park Frehner theatre performed by young actors, hip hop and other performing arts.
Start Date: 03 Jun 2009
End Date: 06 Jun 2009
