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For 15 years now, the legendary Zermatt Unplugged music festival has sent sultry acoustic tones drifting across the slopes of Switzerland’s Matterhorn Mountains, world famous for their beautiful vistas and the cool crowds who always flock there.
One of the Matterhorn’s most desirable events of the year, this unique acoustic music festival creates a fun, creative and intimate setting, with 16 stages centred in a beautiful Swiss village; here, the stars get up close and personal. This year promises to be spectacular, with acoustic music legends Patent Ochsner, Peter Maffay, Passenger, Of Monsters and Men, Calum Scott, Alice Merton, Asaf Avidan, Vance Joy, Bear‘s Den, The Teskey Brothers, Bongeziwe Mabandla, Cam, Joep Beving, Mark Wilkinson, Lucy Rose, Rhodes and many more on the line-up. There should therefore only be one thing in your diary from the April 11 - 15, 2023: Zermatt Unplugged.
Set right off the side of the ski slopes, this is a holiday for the ages; sun, snow, skiing, a festival, acoustic sounds, music stars – Switzerland always did do things well. An exclusive and hushed-up kind of a vibe, only people in the know get to go, and we want you to be one of them. (Aren’t we great?)
Just a short train ride away from Zurich, this is a break away that couldn’t be replicated anywhere else. So stop just reading about it – book!
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Everything in the long-established Ski resort of Zermatt revolves around Switzerland’s icon, the majestic and unmistakable, Matterhorn standing at a hypnotic 4478m.
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