www.cabling.datwyler.com © 2017 Datwyler Cabling Solutions. All rights reserved. Photos: Gurtenfestival/konzertbilder.ch 11 The festival on the Gurten has grown from a small alternative cultural and folk festival in 1977 into one of Switzerland’s largest and most media-effective music festivals which also attracts top international acts. The 34th Gurten Festival was held in mid-July: four days with 61 live acts, 63 DJs, around 80,000 visitors and the best of festival weather. Since 1999 the Gurten Festival has been organised by the Bern event company Appalooza Productions. Each time al- most the whole management team moves up onto the mountain in the final weeks. Up till now a specially leased fibre optic line ensured that there was a connection “to the outside world”

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