Festivals Paléo Festival opens its doors for six days of music

The Paléo Festival in Nyon opened its doors to visitors at around 4 pm on Tuesday. Punk icon Patti Smith was the first highlight on the program at 7 pm on the big stage.

The New York singer is currently on a European tour, which began in Brighton in the south of England in June. The six-day open air kicked off with Yalla Miku, the Geneva-based multicultural band, who began playing in the Club Tent at around 4.30 pm.

Meanwhile, hundreds of music fans flocked to the festival site under the scorching sun. The seats in the shade were particularly popular. On Tuesday morning, the 1,500 tickets that are offered for sale every day were gone within minutes, according to a festival spokesperson.

Patty Smith will be followed by English rockers Royal Blood and Nigerian Afrobeats star and Grammy winner Burna Boy on Tuesday into the night.

Around twenty Swiss artists

More than twenty young Swiss artists are on the program this year. Nuit Incolore, the 23-year-old singer from Valais of Vietnamese descent, who is a star in France, is expected on the Vega stage on Thursday. He performed last week at "Sion sous les étoiles".

The 30-year-old Geneva rapper Slimka, who won the prize for the best artist from French-speaking Switzerland at the Music Awards, will be singing at Club Tent on Friday. At the same venue, the audience can enjoy a concert by Lakna, the 26-year-old ambassador of Afro-pop, who comes from Burkina Faso and lives in Lausanne.

A special feature of this edition, which focuses on audiences under 30 and is dominated by rap, is that almost 80 percent of the artists are performing for the first time. When the program was presented in March, several newspapers in French-speaking Switzerland complained that rock was underrepresented with barely a dozen bands.