Switzerland
Katarina Barruk at Paléo Festival: Sámi joik resonates in Nyon this Friday
Swedish Sámi singer Katarina Barruk performs this Friday, July 23, 2026, at Paléo Festival in Nyon. Her music blends joik—the traditional Sámi chant with shamanic roots—with electronic and pop sounds. She sings in ume sámi, an indigenous language spoken in northern Scandinavia that few festival attendees will understand. For Barruk, language "carries a worldview and a philosophy." Her ambition is not to transmit tradition, but to offer audiences a space of freedom where everyone can be themselves.