The Best ofBroadway features highlights from New York's biggest hit shows. A cast of thirty talented young performers stage the most iconic moments of American musical theatre. Enjoy unforgettable songs from Mamma Mia, Sister Act, Wicked, Little Shop of Horrors and sing along to classics from Grease, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon and more. There will be dancing taken from 42nd Street, Anything Goes, A Chorusline and West Side Story! This revue of greatest hits is sure to have you humming and tapping your toes along to some of your favourite musical theatre songs. The Best of Broadway will be performed by the Youth Group of GAOS (Geneva Amateur Operatic Society). The show will be performed in the Théâtre de Marens in Nyon on Friday 24 August at 20:00 Saturday 25 August at 15:00 and 20:00 and Sunday 26th August at 15:00 If you have a child who is interested in the theatre why not take them along? Maybe they will be inspired and end up performing in next year's production! Booking here

The "Fête des Pirates de Rive" (Pirates' Party) takes place this weekend (17-19 August) in Nyon. Organised every year by the "Noble Confrérie des Pirates de Rive", there will be stands, food and free boat trips offered on the Nyolue. This all takes place by the port of Nyon. Details here.August Brocante Also this weekend on the lake side, it's the Brocante in Nyon, this August Brocante takes place both Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th. Details here. Tin-Tin Tour On Saturday 18th there will be a guided tour entitled "Sur les traces de Tournesol, Hergé & Tintin" This tour is organised by Nyon Tourist office, reservations required - Tel 022 365 66 00

The Variations Musicales de Tannay festival starts today the 17th August and continues on until the 26th August. There is a rich and varied programme on offer at this prestigious festival with evening concerts during the nine-day festival to a Sunday family concert in the park on the 25th with a performance of the "Nutcracker". Full programme hereTannay is a pretty village a short drive from Nyon on the lake road.

The Rive Jazzy Festival ended last weekend in Nyon with concerts, jazz parades and jam sessions throughout the Friday, Saturday and Sunday to celebrate 25 years of live and free music in the town. There was a great atmosphere in Place Molard on Friday night, the outdoor tables were full of people foot tapping, eating and drinking and some folk were even dancing by the lakeside! The festival will be back in the first week of July 2019. Nyon - Town of Festivals Nyon's promotional slogan is that it is the "Ville de Festivals" and indeed as soon as one festival ends, there is usually another around the corner! The Far° festival begins in Nyon on Friday 17th August and continues until the 25th. This festival of living arts has a wide programme of events - see here from work by Opavivará!, an artists' collective from Brazil to dance by Iranian artist Sorour Darabi to dance by Iranian artist Sorour Darabi Photos below courtesy Far° festival.

The final soccer camp of the summer with Intersoccer begins next week on the 6th August at Colovray in Nyon. Boys and Girls of all abilities from 3-13 years old are welcome for 1, 2, 3 4, or 5-day packages. Children are put into age and ability groups. Details here. InterSoccer has been offering offers a wide variety of Courses & Camps from 1 to 5 days for 2-14-year-olds for many years. InterSoccer coaches come from around the world, bringing a mix of skills, experience, knowledge and languages. English is the main language but many of their coaches also have a good knowledge of French & German.

Tomorrow, the 1st August is Fête Nationale/ Swiss National Day. There will be celebrations in villages and towns in cantons across the country. Some celebrations take place on the 31st July. In Trélex tonight there will an apéro at 18:30, a bouncy castle for children, decorating of lanterns, filet de perches, saucisses and frites to eat at 19:30 and a bar at the Salle Polyvalente in the village. At 21:00 an official ceremony will take place followed by a parade of lanterns and a firework display. Full details here In Prangins the will be a Fête National on the 1st August with an apéro between 18:00-18:45. An official ceremony at 18:45-19:30 followed by a parade with lanterns at 21:15 and fireworks at 22:15. Full details here You can check out what's happening in your village, town or commune on the 1st August by looking at the commune or village's website. In Nyon as in every year, the celebrations start on the 1st August at the Esplanade des Marroniers at 19:45 with an apéro accompanied by the Fanfare municipale. At 20:20 there will be the ringing of bells. At 20:25 there will be an official ceremony and at 21:00 there will be a parade that winds down towards the lake. Children can carry lanterns during this parade. There will be fireworks by the lake at 22:15. Full programme here Note: Due to the recent dry weather there is a serious fire risk alert and the Canton has limited the private use of fireworks. They can only be used in areas designated by communes and cannot be used in forest areas. See full details here. Note: Living in Nyon is now taking a short break and will be back on the 10th August. However, we will continue to post from time to time on our Facebook page and also on our Instagram account.

Fleamarket The monthly flea market in Nyon will take place along the lakeside on Sunday 29th July from 08:00 - 18:00. Rive Jazzy The Rive Jazzy weekend concerts continue in the Rive area of town until the 12th August 2018. On Friday 27th July, The Pathfinders (rock n'roll, boogie and soul) will be playing from 20:00 near the Maitre Jacques statue in the old town and on Saturday 28th, The Albert Mark band will play jazz, blues and popular songs from the 1940's to the 1970's. These are free outdoor concerts. Full programme click here Caribbean Music on Sunday On Sunday the Association Places des Marionniers will be hosting a free lunchtime outdoor concert at the Place des Marroniers (where the Roman Columns are situated) from 11:00 -13:30. The music this Sunday comes from Martinique/the Caribbean with the group Sa Kail.

There will be a Ladies' Night at Nyon cinema on Thursday 26th July at 19:30 for a special screening of Mamma Mia! - Here We Go Again. The film will be shown in English. The CHF 25 entry price includes an apéro, a goody bag, the cinema entrance and a fun atmosphere! Tickets can be bought online in advance here

Hip-hop and rap have been heavily represented at this year’s Paléo Festival. Moreover, if previous editions have seen rappers from around the world come and play, this year nearly all of them were French-speaking. If a few years ago the idea of having French-speaking rappers coming from anywhere else than France would have seemed strange, the incredible vitality of both the Belgian and Swiss hip-hop scene has changed that. On Thursday, Romeo Elvis delivered one of the best concerts of the festival. Thanking the crowd for enjoying the concert instead of filming it on their phones and for being so enthusiastic, he declared his love for Switzerland and to his Swiss fans. The same evening saw the rising stars of the local hip-hop scene give what was probably the concert with the craziest public of the week. XTRM tour brings together three MCs who are definitely going places with their art. They owned the stage and kept the fire burning for the whole show. The linguistic divide tends to apply to music the same Swiss-German rap is not very popular or well-known on this side of the Röstigraben, the linguistic border (metaphorically made of Rösti, the quintessentially Swiss-German fried potato dish) that separates Switzerland between the French and German speakers. S.O.S are set to change this. The Bernese collective who rap on tracks heavily inspired by trap and other very heavy beat gave Paléo a chance to realise that you don’t necessarily have to understand the lyrics to enjoy their music. Their Swiss-German dialect went really well with their very fast flow and the very electronic tracks they rapped to. Speaking a mix of French and English to the crowd, they seemed really happy with the way the crowd was reacting to their show. Most of the rappers and crews who played this week come from the new generations of artists, redefining the genre and taking it in many different directions. The important number of rappers is obviously a sign of a very healthy and creative scene. But celebrating the new and the hip doesn’t mean you have to forget where it all started. The main concert of the night was French hip-hop legends (and whose name you wouldn’t want to tell your mum about) Supreme NTM. I’ll let you figure out what the acronym means, considering the last word is French for mother and the N would be translated by an F in English… The bad boys (probably better sons than their name suggests) of French rap, JoeyStarr and Kool Shen, boast 30 years of career and are still going strong. Their tracks have accompanied generation after generation of teenagers, from the dancy Ma Benz to the rap-manifesto of My people. After a week of rather disappointing concerts on the main stage when it came to the famous, older bands like Depeche Mode and The Killers, whose concerts were rather boring and uninspired, NTM finally showed us that you can have nothing left to prove and still give it everything you’ve got. They have obviously calmed down a bit and are probably slightly less rebellious than they were thirty years ago: after playing their song Police, which is probably the French equivalent to NWA’s Fuck the police, JoeyStarr concluded by saying that the police were just like public transport: we wouldn’t go very far without them. That song and its sample of KRS One’s Sound of da Police is a great example of an auditive hallucination: for most French-speaking people, “it’s the sound of the police” is understood as “assassin de la police” (cop killer), making it a big hit in the French hip-hop scene. It’s a rather interesting anecdote about the weird ways our brains work!

Traditional Dancing Italian traditional dancing was on offer at Paléo at 17:00 on Saturday with the group Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino who performed a dance called the Tarantella Salentina. This dance from Southern Italy, was according to local beliefs, a powerful remedy against tarantula bites! Despite the early hour, the Canzoniere attracted a fair-sized crowd in the L'Escale tent for this short teaser of a show before their main performance in the Dome later on. Cup of Tea? If you are at Paléo and you would prefer to have a cup of tea, a coffee or a granita (rather than an alcoholic drink), then head off to La Théière. This bar is run by the Fifes et Tambours (flute and drums) association of Nyon. Many bars are run by local associations and clubs and their presence at Paléo week enables them to raise funds for their annual activities. Ines is one of the manageresses of the bar, and she and her daughter Sophie are in their seventh year of working at Paléo. They both say they love coming here not just for the music, but for the spirit of working in a team with others and meeting new faces when serving up the tea. The team have an annual tradition of sharing a fondue together at 03:00 on the final Saturday night when all the crowds have gone home! Ines told Living in Nyon that the most popular teas sold are Thé vert froid and Chai! Behind the Scenes How do the professionals, press and photographers avoid the crowds and get quickly between the stages? They walk through the woodland! Take a look at our Living in Nyon "sneak peek" of one of the many hidden routes behind the scenes at Paléo. Here's another Living in Nyon video showing the stands at Paléo that are dedicated to a variety of humanitarian, social and environmental causes.

After four days of lovely sunny and warm weather at Paléo, clouds began to appear on late Friday afternoon, there was thunder and lightning above the grounds and then a storm moved in. It began to rain and rain very heavily indeed. Festival goers in the Village du Monde area huddled under the canopies and any dry place they could find. Many gathered in the L'Escale tent where they were entertained with music by Luca Bassanese & La Piccola Orchestre Popolare. Their wacky, fun "pop-folk" fanfare cheered up the crowd while they waited for the rain to stop. See the final video at the end of this post. Unfortunately, the storm continued for a while which then delayed the start of the first concert on the main stage. The rain had created technical difficulties so by the time U.S band "Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats" were able to play, they could only perform around 20 minutes of their set. Nevertheless, this didn't stop some die-hard fans in the crowd dancing and making the most of what was left of the concert. Eventually, the rain died down and although it had created a mudbath in places, the concerts continued. There was even a partial rainbow that appeared above Les Arches stage for "Havana Meets Kingston", a fabulous Cuban/Jamaican world music mix. Their tropical sound warmed up the audience, rainjackets started to be peeled off and the dancing began. Later on in the Detour Tent, French 21-year-old "Theo Lawrence and the Hearts" wowed a big crowd with his soul, blues and rock'n roll. Photo above - Theo Lawrence and the Hearts. Below - Luca Bassanese & La Piccola Orchestre Popolare

In Wednesday's post, reporter Jonas Parson wrote about the volunteers who work behind the scenes and wash all the festival's eco-cups. Also behind the scenes are hundreds of other volunteers working as security staff, helping out at the information stands, working at the bars, cleaning the grounds during and after the festival, putting up the location signs, directing the traffic circulation and many other tasks. Photo above - "The Archers" some of the stage crew who work at Les Arches stage Many volunteers return year after year, not only because it gives them a chance to attend the festival for free, but also for the camaraderie that's involved whilst volunteering. Two volunteers who come back to Paléo for that reason are (left to right) Stephanie and Jessica. They are both currently working as security staff outside the Club Tent checking the validity of the passes and badges of the staff, visitors, press and all those who have the authorisation to enter this restricted area. Away from Paléo, Jessica is a dance teacher in Geneva and Stephanie is a biology teacher in Lausanne. Jessica has been volunteering for ten years and Stephanie for five. They told Living in Nyon, "There is a magic about this festival and a great ambience amongst the staff and festival goers". We love to meet new people too and in this volunteer position you get to meet a lot!" Tips for Paléo - Draw out cash BEFORE you go to Paléo. The queues for the on-site ATM were very long on Thursday night - it's best to draw out your money before you get to the grounds. Last year we published some helpful hints for those heading off to Paléo and they are just as relevant in 2018. NOTE: The "Volcano" structure mentioned in last year's post as a good meeting spot is a "Coral Reef" this year.