Sun&Snow Weekend Festival, Sierra Nevada

Sun&Snow Weekend Festival, Sierra Nevada, Location Plan

Sun&Snow Weekend Festival, Sierra Nevada

Sun&Snow Weekend Festival, Sierra Nevada 5 to 7 April 2024

The fifth edition of the Sun&Snow Weekend Festival took place on the first weekend of April 2024. The festival took the European club scene to new heights (2,500m) and is now firmly established in the dance music calendar.

A tribute to the European and especially Berlin club scene was the theme of the festival's fifth anniversary programme. Due due to unusually high winds at the Sierra Nevada Ski resort, the festival organisers were forced to modify the schedules. The festival saw total of 6,000 attendees pass through the different venues of Sun & Snow Weekend at Sierra Nevada.

The festival opened on the Friday as planned however the wind were forecast for the Saturday and Sunday. This closed the ski lift and access to the Ski area of Borreguiles, where the festival's Altitude stage was prepared and waiting to go. The DJ sets that were scheduled for the outdoor Altitude stage were moved to other stages of the festival. such as those located in the Peñones car park: The Mountain Club and Igloo Stage, which continued as normal with extended opening hours.

Artists / DJ

Courtesy (Najaaraq Vestbirk) ( YouTube ) from Copenhagen combined music, performance, installations and video in her set. The Mountain Club presented sets by Detroit's Dj Holographic ( YouTube ) mixed techno, funk and house. Hunee from the German scene showed why he is a key figure on the circuit. Jimi Jules a multi instrumentalist from Zurich, B2B and Trikk performed back to back joint set to fuse house and techno as seen at Zurich Street Parade 2023 on YouTube. John Talabot, one of the legends of the national club sound from Barcelona, was a highlight of the festival, here at Bilbao BBk Live UDA on YouTube. Live performances included Berlin/Prešnica duo Keope, whose music is based on guitar-based modular sounds. From Hannover, Leafar Legov brought his distinctive downtempo house sound.One of the most awaited performances was the closing set by Krystal Klear. Natural Language, Skatman and Mala Ika stood out on the Igloo Stage, with Saturday's closing set by Paquita Gordon.

The UK scene was represented by up-and-coming Or:la, known as a producer and DJ at Corsica Studios in the UK, Circoloco in Ibiza and Berghain in Berlin. Robag Wruhme will closed the festival with an new set.

Álvaro Mesa, who was due to perform on The Attitude stage, is a key figure in the Andalucian electronic scene.

Other artists such as Cynthia Cardenas, Daniel Kelsan, Dubpaper, Gabi, Host, Otter, S3NR3 and Rober Peinado completed the line-up for the 2024 edition of Sun&Snow Weekend.

Festival typical schedule

The festival takes place each year in three different venues at two different locations in the resort. The Attitude Stage is an outdoor terrace at Borreguiles, while the Mountain Club is a large indoor venue ideal for a house and the adjacent Igloo Stage offers a more lounge concept.

Welcome Stage
The festival generally kicks off with a special Welcome Stage on Friday from 14:00 to 19:00 in the main plaza of the Sierra Nevada resort as a welcome event. There will be two DJ sets.

Altitude Stage
Enjoying electronic music in the open air, surrounded by the snow-capped Sierra Nevada, is one of the highlights of the Sun&Snow festival. The Altitude Stage in the Borreguiles will take place on Saturday from 11.00 to 16.30. The Altitude Stage is an outdoor terrace stage at the Borreguiles ski station at an altitude of 2,650m, accessible only by cable car. Tickets for the cable car cost €21 return and are not included in the basic festival ticket, only in the festival Ski&Dance pass. As it takes an hour to get from the Attitude Stage to the Igloo / Mountain Club, many festival goers plan to spend Saturday morning at Attitude, lunch at Borreguiles, late afternoon at the Igloo and night at the Mountain Club.

Igloo Stage
The Igloo Stage, with an immersive sound system and an intimate space. The Igloo is the winter refuge to enjoy the more daring or experimental sessions of the festival artists. In 2023 the Igloo Stage will be open on Friday and Saturday from 17.00 to 03.00 and on Sunday from 14.00 to 04.00 hrs.

The Mountain Club
The main area of Sun&Snow is undoubtedly the one that attracts the most clubbers. and unique experiences! It has a large dance floor and a VIP and backstage area. It also has a stage with the latest technological advances to faithfully reproduce the artist's In 2023 it was open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 19.30 to 06.00.

Fifth edition 2024 Festival was 5th to 7th April 2024. Weekend pass was 69€, VIP pass was 119€