Photo above: Jack Johnson (courtesy of Paléo festival)
The line up for Paléo 2011 has now been revealed and as ever there's an interesting mix of music on offer from around the world. This year in particular there is plenty on the programme for Anglophones with big names such as Jack Johnson, James Blunt, The Strokes, Robert Plant, Portishead, The Chemical Brothers, The Noisettes - all of them due to play at the five day festival.
At the press conference Daniel Rossellat president of Paléo announced that he was particularly pleased that Jack Johnson had accepted to play in Nyon as he felt that his music would definitely part of the spirit of the festival. Sometimes programmers had to wait quite a few years to get the artists here. Either their tour dates didn't coincide with Paléo dates, or some of them have other family commitments in the summer (there has been a six year wait to get the Chemical Brothers to play here).
Photo below: The Noisettes (courtesy of Paléo festival)
The Village du Monde music this year comes from the Caribbean with Los Van Van and Chucho Valdes Choc Quib Town, the Creole Choir of Cuba and many others, all set to give tropical, reggae, reggaton, and latin and sounds for the music fans.
Photo below: The Creole Choir of Cuba (courtesy of Paléo festival)
Swiss Musicians also on line up
This year there are many Swiss musicians from the German speaking part of Switzerland on the programme, but Romandie holds it own with "Trip In" from Nyon, "Aliose" from Nyon and Geneva, and Geneva based "Mama Rosin". This latter group come to Paléo after a very successful UK tour and performance on the BBC programme "Later with Jools Holland " and BBC Radio Six Music. For Paléo this year they will be playing with English rockabillies band "Hip Bone Slim".
Note: Living in Nyon first wrote about Mama Rosin on this site in 2008 when they performed at the club 1306 and at Paléo last year.
There will also be an interview with singer Alizé Oswald from "Aliose" here on Living in Nyon on this site in the next few weeks. Jacques Monnier head music programmer of Paléo said that the Swiss music tent is often a spring board for many Swiss artists, who then go on to bigger things outside this country so it is a tent definitely worth checking out.
Photo below "Trip In" from Nyon (courtesy Paléo festival)
The festival will end on the Sunday with the classical concert of the "Ensemble vocal et instrumental de Lausanne performing the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré. Then in the evening Jamel will be providing a touch of comedy to end it all. As ever there will be much more on Paléo nearer to the dates of the festival and during the week itself, but don't forget if you want to go this year, be ready to buy your tickets the day they are released which is next Wednesday 13th April at midday as it is likely they will sell out very fast as in previous years. For those newcomers to Nyon who have never been to Paléo, checkout this time lapse video made up of 24'572 ages taken from a camera high up positioned on an elctricity pylon. The video gives you a good idea of what one of Europe's biggest rock festivals is all about! Paléo 2011 - Teaser en time-lapsepar paleo Some interesting facts to come out of the Paléo conference are the spectator profile figures, Origin of spectators Nyon district (Nyon and surrounding areas Duillier, Eysins, Grens, Prangins, Signy-Avenex, Trélex) 30% Canton of Vaud (not including Nyon) 20% Canton of Geneva 29% Other French speaking cantons 8% German speaking part of Switzerland and Ticino 2% France 10% Other countries 1%Age of spectators Under 20 years 17% Between 20 and 29 years 43% Between 30 and 39 years 15% Between 40 and 49 years 10% Over 50 years 15 % Fans are very loyal too! 10% are disovering Paléo for the first time but 79 % of the public have already been to more than three festivals Out of the 98% of the public who are considering returning the following year, 85% are certain they will return and 13% say it will be a possibility for them. Ticket prices are slightly higher this year by 5 CHF, the first increase in a few years.