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Paléo Festival
Paléo Festival
	Paléo Festival de Nyon - 2009.
Genre	Rock music
Dates	end of July, from Tuesday to Sunday
Location(s)	Plaine de l'Asse; Nyon, Switzerland
Years active	1976–present
Website	Festival Website

The Paléo Festival de Nyon, usually just called Paléo,^[1] is an annual rock festival held in Nyon, Switzerland.^[2] It started in a small way in 1976 as the Nyon Folk Festival. The first one was held in the village hall in Nyon. From 1977 until 1989, it was held at Colovray, Nyon, by Lake Geneva and had only two stages, but today it is one of the major open-air music festivals in mainland Europe and the biggest in Switzerland. Today the event has grown to include international artists. In 1990, it moved to its current location, at the Plaine de l'Asse, accessible either by walking, bus or the Chemin de fer Nyon-St-Cergue-Morez narrow-gauge railway.

The festival lasts six days at the end of July, from Tuesday to Sunday, and the final main stage concert is preceded by a great firework display with music.

As of 2005, 3.5 million spectators and 2500 artists had been part of the Paléo Festival.

Stages

The Paléo features six stages:

La Grande Scène (the Main Stage)
Vega (Which replaced Les Arches in 2022)
Le Club Tent (the Club Tent)
La Ruche (the hive) (formerly called 'La Crique')
Le Dôme (the Dome)
Belleville (since 2022, dedicated to electronic music)
Le Détour (regional bands now located inside the festival, formerly called 'FMR' which was a free stage)

Since 2003, the Paléo has introduced Le Village du Monde (The World Village) section, which is a space reserved for an invited region of the world. This place offers the region's culture and food. It also includes Le Dôme which shows only artists from the invited region.

280,000 visitors and over 5,000 staff participated in the 2015 event.

Tickets

Tickets can be purchased on the Paléo Website. Special offers are available usually as early as November of the year preceding the next Paléo festival with discounted all-week passes. Later in Spring the official programme is published and the second, slightly less discounted tickets are available. They are often sold out very quickly. In the months preceding the festival more tickets are sold at full price.

To fight black-market ticket sales, 1500 one-day tickets are held up to be sold the same day as their validity date and can be purchased online (to be printed by the buyer).

The lineup used to be revealed on a late April Wednesday at noon, following which, both tickets and passes would sell out within days. From 2008 onwards, the lineup is unveiled one week prior to the sale, giving people plenty of time to make up their mind and thus rushing them online to get their tickets one week later. In 2009, all 280,000 tickets and passes were sold in a record one-and-a-half hours.

Yearly summary

1997

Invited artists:

For a full list see the 1997 history.

1998

Invited artists:

For a full list see the 1998 history.

1999

Invited artists:

For a full list see the 1999 history.

2000

Invited artists:

For a full list see the 2000 history.

2001

Invited artists:

For a full list see the 2001 history.

2002

Invited artists:

For a full list see the 2002 history.

2003

Invited artists:

For a full list see the 2003 history.

This year saw the first Village du Monde. Africa was invited with Cameroon, Nigeria and other countries from that continent.

2004

Invited artists:

Eros Ramazzotti
Jamel Debbouze (a French comedian in the festival's only non-musical show scheduled on the main scene)
Pascal Obispo
Peter Gabriel
Stephan Eicher
Starsailor
Texas
Muse
Myslovitz (From Poland)

Latin America was invited at the Village du Monde. Specifically Venezuela, Colombia, Equator, Peru and Mexico among others.

For a full list see the 2004 history.

2005

In 2005, the following world-renowned artists participated at the Paléo (among many others):

That year was considered very successful, with a cool but clear weather for most of the week (except some short showers on Sunday). Asia was the region invited to the Village du Monde, including China, Tibet, Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand and Japan.

For a full list see the 2005 history.

2006

Paléo took place from 18 to 23 July 2006 with the following artists:

Eastern Europe hosted the Village du Monde.

For a full list see the 2006 history.

2007

For a full list see the 2007 history.

2008

R.E.M. headlined the Sunday night.

For a full list see the 2008 history.

2009

2009 edition of Paléo took place from the 21 to 26 July 2009. Below list includes some of the musicians who performed during the concert:

India was the region invited to the Village du Monde.

For a full list see the 2009 history.

2010

In 2010, the festival was held from July 20 to July the 24th. Some of the performing artists included:

The Motto for the Village du Monde was Southern Africa.

For a full list see the 2010 history.

2011

The 2011 edition of the Paléo Festival took place from Tuesday, July the 19th to Sunday, July the 24th. The following list includes some of the acts that were confirmed on the 5th of April:

AaRON
Admiral James T.
Jean-Louis Aubert
Beirut
Bloody Beetroots
James Blunt
The Chemical Brothers
Cocoon
Les Cowboys Fringants
The Dø
PJ Harvey
Jack Johnson
Mika (replaced Amy Winehouse)
Metronomy
Moriarty
Yael Naïm
The National
Noisettes
Patrice & The Supowers
Robert Plant & The Band of Joy
Portishead
Pulled Apart By Horses
The Strokes
Stromae
Tarun Bhardwaj Ambala Waale
Amy Winehouse (canceled her European Tour due to alcohol problems)
William White
Zaz and her band

The Motto for the Village du Monde was the Caribbean.

For a full list see the 2011 history.

2012

17 July

18 July

19 July

20 July

21 July

22 July

2013

23 July

24 July

25 July

26 July

27 July

28 July

2014

2015

Robbie Williams
Gary Clark Jr.

2016

2017

2018

Gorillaz
The Killers
Lenny Kravitz
Kaleo
Depeche Mode
Indochine
MGMT
Jain
Jamel Debbouze
Romeo Elvis
Suprême NTM
Nekfeu
Bigflo & Oli
Angèle
Feder
Lorenzo
Orelsan
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra

2019

Headliners
Tuesday 23 July	Wednesday 24 July	Thursday 25 July	Friday 26 July	Saturday 27 July	Sunday 28 July
Twenty One Pilots Christine and the Queens Charlotte Gainsbourg Les Cowboys Fringants	Lana Del Rey -M- The Blaze	The Cure Lomepal	Soprano Damso Angèle Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine	Shaka Ponk Stephan Eicher & Traktorkestar	Patrick Bruel Birkin Gainsbourg Dadju

2020

The 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021

The 2021 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2022

Tuesday 19 July	Wednesday 20 July	Thursday 21 July	Friday 22 July	Saturday 23 July	Sunday 24 July
KISS -M- Dropkick Murphys La Femme Turnstile Panda Dub Perturbator O.B.G & Charlie P & Sr Wilson Mungo's Hi Fi The Murder Capital Silver Dust Arka'n Asrafokor Santrofi BROKEN BRIDGE Guiss Guiss Bou Bess Ubik All Stars feat. Nello B Little Lion Sound	Sting Rag'n'Bone Man Metronomy Feu! Chatterton Fatoumata Diawara Mall Grab Suzane Bombino Sama' Abdulhadi Laolu YĪN YĪN Marius Bear P.R2B Marina Satti Santrofi BIM Psycho Weazel (Dj-set) Bowmore	Angèle Francis Cabrel Roméo Elvis Dub Inc Chilla Red Axes Third World Queen Omega Blaiz Fayah Manudigtal & Caporal Negus Michel Flèche Love GLITTER55 Ami Yèrèwolo Art Melody BIM DC Salas (Live) Ramin&Reda Pornopolis	DJ Snake PNL SCH Grand Corps Malade Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Juliette Armanet BARON.E Billx Arma Jackson Berywam ascendant vierge Mara Makoto San Elida Almeida GARGÄNTUA Barrio Colette AMAMI [[Star Feminine Band] Rōse	OrelSan Ninho Tryo Têtes Raides Gaël Faye Folamour Sopico Kingzer Kampire Songhoy Blues Bleu Jeans Bleu Glauque Coco Em Meta and The Cornerstones Ozadya FOKN Bois Nuri Les Fils du Facteur Schnautzi	Stromae Orchestre des Hautes écoles de musique de Suisse romande MEUTE Little Simz Cimafunk Catastrophe FLOHIO James BKS Mezerg L'Exclair Vaudou Game Julien Granel Zenobia Arthur Hnatek Kety Fusco Kajeem Club Katel