Chamonix to host music festival

10th August 2017, by Abi Butcher

Chamonix will host a new music festival next spring

The ski resort of Chamonix will host a new music festival next spring which it hopes will become “the” closing party in the Alps.

Musilac Mont-Blanc will be a winter version of the rock-pop Musilac Festival, which takes place at Aix-les-Bains every summer — and this year celebrated its 15th birthday. The pop-rock festival will run from 19-21 April, in the Bois du Bouchet which is best known as a paragliding landing site and has the capacity to welcome 15,000 party-goers every evening.

The organisers say the festival will host around 15 bands, with four to five acts per evening and three headline artists — with the first names expected to be announced at the end of September. The event is expected to cost between €1-1.5million, with Musilac partnering on the project with Mont-Blanc Media and several municipalities of the Chamonix valley.

The mayor of Chamonix, Éric Fournier said: “This event will allow us to expand our cultural offer during a period, when we welcome also tourists who are not necessarily sports enthusiasts. It will be a different way to enjoy the resort.”

Read Where to Ski and Snowboard’s independent review of Chamonix here.

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