World Ski & Snowboard Festival

The defining celebration of Whistler, the World Ski and Snowboard Festival is a 10 day and night showcase of the latest progressions in the skiing and snowboarding world, where even the arts events are packed full of adrenaline. Combining Canada’s largest free outdoor concert series with career-making showdowns of action sports and lifestyle fashion, photography and film, the best spring snow conditions, and burn-the-candle nightlife, it’s a celebration of everything that’s core to mountain culture.

Accommodation Deals

Coming to Whistler during the World Ski & Snowboard Festival makes sense for so many reasons. First of all, you get to enjoy everything this wildly popular festival offers, the slopes are less crowded, the snow is still great and you get it all at amazing low season prices. You can't lose!
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*Starting from rate is based on 2 people sharing a studio or one bedroom from Apr 10 - 24, 2013.  Offer is subject to availability at time of booking and may change without notice.  Taxes and fees are extra. Two night minimum stays are required and other restrictions may apply.

Outdoor Concert Series

In a world where nothing comes for free, Whistler, aka Gnarnia, offers up a 10 day program of music concerts spanning a vast variety of genres to feed your soul and support your wallet. Stuff dreams are made of: an epic schedule of award-winning artists will be on hand to keep the party juices flowing for the entire 10 days of the Festival. Main Stage located in Skier's Plaza, free concerts 2:30pm - 5:30pm.

The 2013 line-up is starting to take shape:

Date Artist Time
Friday, April 12 One Bad Son 2:30pm
  DiRTY RADiO 4:00pm
Saturday, April 13 Mat the Alien
6:30pm
  Nas
8:00pm
Sunday, April 14 Kim Churchill 2:30pm
  Keller Williams 4:00pm
Monday, April 15 Sidney York 2:30pm
  Anuhea 4:00pm
Tuesday, April 16 CFOX Seed Band Winners: We Hunt Buffalo
2:30-5:30pm
  CFOX Seed Band Winners: Static in the Stars 2:30-5:30pm
  CFOX Seed Band Winners: Fields of Green
2:30-5:30pm 
Wednesday, April 17 Longstride 2:30pm
  Yuca 4:00pm
Thursday, April 18 Whiskey Chief 2:30pm
  Beats Antique 4:00pm
Friday, April 19 Rich Aucoin 2:30pm
  K-OS 4:00pm
Saturday, April 20 Swollen Members During Big Air
  G. Love & Special Sauce 4:00pm
Sunday, April 21 No Sinner 2:30pm
  The Arkells 4:00pm

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Event Schedule

With so many great things on the schedule and over 8,100 acres of terrain to explore, you'll have to use every bit of your time management skill to fit everything in. Here's a calendar of World Ski & Snowboard Festival events so you can start planning:

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Getting to the World Ski & Snowboard Festival

It doesn't matter if you are flying, driving or coming to Whistler by bus, we've got you covered. You'll find super-cheap flights, great rates on rental cars and ground transportation from motorcoaches to stretch limos. And to get you here, we also have driving directions and maps.

For more information, check out the official World Ski & Snowboard Festival: twssf.com »

TWSSF 2012 Promo Video

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