What Moon&Stars does

Moon&Stars is a private, for-profit music festival organizer headquartered in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 2004, the company produces an annual live music festival in Locarno — scheduled for July 9-19, 2026 in its next confirmed edition — targeting general consumer audiences attending open-air concerts. The company operates with a small team of 11-50 employees, consistent with the lean staffing typical of single-event annual festival producers that rely on contracted production crews, vendors, and seasonal labor during the event window.

The core product is the festival itself: a multi-day, multi-act live music programming offering anchored to a fixed Locarno venue. There is no evidence of a technology platform, proprietary software, or digital product beyond the company website (moonandstars.ch), which serves as a marketing and ticketing information channel. No technical architecture, mobile app, or streaming component is described in the available data.

The business model is event-based revenue generation, primarily through ticket sales to individual consumers, supplemented by sponsorship and vendor partnerships typical of regional European music festivals. The annual, single-event cadence concentrates revenue into a narrow execution window each year. The company markets with a German-language tagline ("Unvergessliche Nächte in Locarno" — Unforgettable nights in Locarno), indicating a primarily German-speaking Swiss and adjacent cross-border audience. No pricing tiers, ticket volume, sponsor names, or partnership details are disclosed in the supplied data.

Name

Moon&Stars

Website

https://moonandstars.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Moon&Stars is a Swiss live music festival organizer founded in 2004, producing an annual multi-day open-air festival in Locarno for general consumer audiences, with a small core team of 11-50 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Music Festival / Event Entertainment

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities (71131), Performing Arts Companies (7111)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Festival & Event Producers/Organizers (MPAIAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Outdoor Amphitheater & Open-Air Venue Operations (MPAGALAG), Event Operations & Venue Services (Box Office, FOH/BOH, Concessions) (MPAIAFAL)

Keywords

• Live music festival
• Cultural entertainment
• Summer music events
• Open air concerts
• Festival ticketing

Headquarters

HQ city

Tessin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

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Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Moon&Stars organizes and hosts an annual multi-day live music and cultural festival in Locarno, Switzerland, providing scheduled concert performances, a festival atmosphere, and a summer open-air event experience. The company sells access (tickets) to this live event and promotes it as "Unvergessliche Nächte in Locarno" (Unforgettable nights in Locarno), with the 2026 edition running July 9-19, 2026.

Product overview

Moon&Stars is a music festival brand that organizes and hosts live music events. Based on available source data, the company operates the Moon&Stars music festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Moon&Stars Music & Cultural Festival Annual multi-day open-air live music and cultural festival held in Locarno, Switzerland, offering scheduled concert performances and a curated summer festival atmosphere for individual attendees and visitors. The 2026 edition is scheduled for July 9-19, 2026.

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Broad incumbents

• AEG Presents: Major global live entertainment promoter and venue operator, including festivals. Comparable as a competing festival promoter but operates as a broad portfolio incumbent rather than a single-event specialist.
• Glastonbury Festival: Iconic UK destination music festival operating at much larger scale. Comparable in outdoor multi-day format but is a broad incumbent in European summer festival market, competing indirectly for touring acts.
• Live Nation Entertainment: Global live entertainment conglomerate operating festivals, venues, and ticketing at massive scale. Competes for the same artist booking pipeline and sponsor partnerships, but at a vastly different scale.

Regional players

• Estival Jazz Lugano: Free open-air jazz and music festival held in Lugano, in the same Ticino region as Moon&Stars. Comparable lakeside setting and regional audience, but operates as a free/admission-based model rather than a ticketed headliner festival.
• Sierre Blues Festival: Smaller, genre-focused Swiss music festival operating in the Valais region. Comparable as a small-scale Swiss regional festival, but with a narrower blues/roots focus and different audience than Moon&Stars' mainstream programming.

Direct peers

• Montreux Jazz Festival: Long-running annual music festival held on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Most directly comparable Swiss music festival peer: similar lakeside outdoor format, established brand, multi-day programming, and target audience of European festival-goers.
• Open Air St. Gallen: Annual multi-day Swiss open-air music festival operating on a similar scale and timing as Moon&Stars. Directly comparable in format, geography (German-speaking Switzerland), and audience profile.
• Gurten Festival: Mid-sized Swiss open-air music festival held in Bern. Operates in the same annual summer window, similar scale, and competes for the same Swiss festival audience and headliners.
• Zurich Open Air: Swiss open-air music festival in Zurich with comparable multi-day outdoor format and audience. Direct competitor for German-speaking Swiss festival-goers and regional sponsor budgets.
• Paléo Festival Nyon: One of Switzerland's largest open-air music festivals, held annually in Nyon. Directly competes for Swiss and European summer festival audiences, headliner talent, and sponsorship dollars.

Market position

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Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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