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It was the 23rd edition of the Indio two-weekend celebration.

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Coachella is one of the world’s top-tier music festivals for a reason and 2024 left no room for disappointment. I had the pleasure of being present during both weekends and these were some of my highlights.

Weekend 1:

ANOTR led us into Friday night with lively dance grooves like ‘Relax my Eyes’ and their new single ‘How You Feel ft. Leven Kali’, a singer-singer writer whose journey I’ve been following for years. Hearing this collaboration for the first time on Yuma’s dance floor made perfect sense as the first big highlight of the night. The bar reached new heights at Anti Up, Chris Lorenzo and Chris Lake’s progressive house brainchild, with ‘Keep Calm, Says Who?’ spray painted along the backdrop in true underground fashion. You could feel the attention to detail infused in the entire atmosphere as Mojave turned into a giant dance floor alongside the British duo.

Opening Sahara on Saturday, Massio and Loboman returned to Coachella as Lobomassio and set the stage with euphoric Afro house anthems including Sparrow and Barbosa’s remix of Dikebo by Cisummi and hot track ‘MALA FAMA” by Moeaike. Their infectious, breezy set was accompanied by a killer view from atop the new Sahara Hill – one of the best additions to the festival grounds. Belgium’s powerhouse Charlotte de Witte captivated the audience after sunset, the pounding acid techno rhythms making it impossible not to move. The impeccable next set came from Gessafelstein, French producer dubbed “dark prince of techno” and boy, he did not disappoint. Touching every sensory perception, Gessafelstein lands right on your pulse. His music captivates and enchants, and tells a powerful story. The last stop was Dom Dolla, where he dropped an unreleased, contagious ID with Tove Lo called ‘Cave’.

Sunday began with an incredible set by Adam Ten x Mita Gami, followed by Folamour and Artbat. Spent all afternoon under one roof raving, AKA the Yuma. Bicep shut it down at Mojave afterwards – an unreal moment when they dropped their classic ‘Glue’. The visual journey there took on a life of its own.

Weekend 2:

Friday started off strong with Rufus Du Sol’s sunset set at the brand new Quasar stage, featuring double monolithic screens that often mimic the desert’s jaw-dropping surroundings, especially at dusk. They had a message for the crowd, “Life is Simple” and kept it going, keeping the dance floor grounded in the present moment for hours to come.

On Saturday, Maz started up the Yuma at 2 pm, transporting you to a mystical place through his melodic, tribal grooves. It was a no-brainer that we went back for round two of Gessafelstein later that night – the second set was even better. Dom Dolla seconds after that where he brought out Tove Lo for the final announcement of their new track together, ‘Cave’. Sunday was packed with happy, lighter dance tracks from DJ Seinfeld and Flight Facilities at Yuma, to Diplo and Mau P’s sunset set back at Quasar. This new stage is truly the most beautiful spot to be for sunset at Coachella, with a powerful sound to match the insane imagery. Barry Can’t Swim ended our journey on the perfect playful note, dropping tunes like ‘How It Feels‘ and ‘God is The Space Between Us’, waves of nostalgia and melancholy swirling in the air.

Additional highlights included meeting the lovely Morag Myerscough at Lobomassio’s set – creator of the whimsical and playful art installation ‘Dancing in the Sky’ featured at Coachella 2024. It’s a geometric plaza full of color and child-like playfulness that encapsulates the energy of exploration and creativity most perfectly. The Do Lab debuted their new and improved setup, featuring immersive life-size mushrooms made of satin which act as shade structures by day and morph into lively interactive beings that dance alongside you by night.

What were your highlights from Coachella 2024?

xx, C

Performers, parking, road closures and more.

Patch Staff

INDIO, CA — The city of Indio announced Tuesday an additional road closure in advance of this weekend's Stagecoach country music festival, April 26-28, at the Empire Polo Club.

It adds to a list of ongoing street closures in effect through May 6 amid festival season.

Here's what to know about the weekend ahead:

Stagecoach performances

Eric Church, Miranda Lambert and Morgan Wallen are the scheduled Stagecoach headliners. Other acts include Jelly Roll, Elle King, Dwight Yoakam, Carin Leon, Paul Cauthen, Post Malone, Willie Nelson, Leon Bridges, Ernest and Charley Crockett, Hardy, Bailey Zimmerman, The Beach Boys, Megan Moroney and Clint Black.

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Additionally, Stagecoach festival-goers will have the opportunity to meet for late-night performances in the Palomino stage, which will feature Nickelback, Diplo, and Wiz Khalifa, according to festival organizers.

As is tradition, the venue will also feature a ferris wheel, the Compton Cowboys, Guy Fieri's Stagecoach Smokehouse and a Honkytonk Dance Hall.

The Empire Polo Club venue at 81-800 51st Avenue opens at 12 noon April 26. Get more info about the festival schedule, concert lineups, parking, and more here.

Road closures:

Avenue 52 from Monroe Street to Madison Street will be closed from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. Thursday to accommodate the arrival of campers and RVs attending the Stagecoach festival. Alternate routes include Avenue 54, Avenue 49, Avenue 48, Dr. Carreon Boulevard and Highway 111.

Previously announced road closures continue to be in place. Avenue 50 between Monroe Streetand Madison Avenue will be closed through Monday, May 6. The closure is necessary to protectthe safety of workers, residents, and commuters. Alternate routes include Highway 111, Dr.Carreon Boulevard, Avenue 48 and Avenue 52.

The following streets will be the open access routes for Stagecoach, but heavy traffic is expected:

On Friday, April 26 through Monday, April 29, the following roads will be closed:

Expect additional delays Monday following the festival, as streets surrounding the festival site and Interstate 10 will be busy with more than 40,000 campers leaving the area.

Consider the following alternate routes:

Uber Location:

Friends, Family/Taxi Drop Off, Pick Up:

NO pedestrian or pedestrian festival access:

Approved pedestrian access:

Additional notes:

For concert logistics, questions, or issues, please call 760-391-4112 or [email protected].

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Cowboy boots won't be the only things picking up dust this weekend while the Stagecoach country music festival is taking place Friday through Sunday at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.

Strong winds, with gusts up to 30 to 35 mph, are expected Thursday and Friday, leading to cool but dusty conditions in the Coachella Valley, said Alex Tardy, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego.

"It's today and Friday when we're going to see repeated winds in the desert," he said.

The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory for the Coachella Valley, San Gorgonio Pass area near Banning and the surrounding Riverside County and San Bernardino County mountain areas until 11 p.m. Friday.

The high both Thursday and Friday will be near 80 degrees, which Tardy said is "below normal by over 10 degrees." Temperatures will drop to the upper 50s in the evening.

However, "the weekend's going to (have) lighter winds and warm up back to the upper 80s," Tardy said, which is good news for festivalgoers who will have to brave all the elements out in Indio.

Sunny skies are expected Saturday, with a high near 85 degrees. Windy conditions will still be felt, up to 10 to 15 mph with gusts as high as 25 mph. Temperatures will drop to 60 degrees at night.

Sunday will continue to warm up with temperatures near 89 degrees, before cooling off to around 64 degrees.

Tips for staying healthy at Stagecoach: Face mask, kerchief or bandana

Gusty winds are expected to cause periods of elevated particle pollution levels and blowing dust that may result in air quality index levels that are unhealthy for sensitive groups, South Coast Air Quality Management District officials said some parts of the Coachella Valley reached air quality index levels above 300, which is considered hazardous.

Vincent Devlin, a board certified allergist/immunologist with the Eisenhower Allergy and Immunology Clinic, shared a number of tips Coachella Valley residents and Stagecoach festivalgoers should keep in mind these next few days:

Tardy also reminds festivalgoers to drink plenty of water.

"Even though temperatures are what you might consider cool, there's going to be blowing dust and the air is going to be dry, so it doesn't take long before you're dehydrated," Tardy said.

Ema Sasic covers entertainment and health in the Coachella Valley. Reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter @ema_sasic.

British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN kicked off the Power Trip festival at 6:45 p.m. on Friday (October 6) in Indio, California by playing the same 15-song set they have been performing throughout their ongoing "The Future Past Tour".

"The Future Past Tour" features previously unperformed songs from the band's most recent studio album, "Senjutsu", along with a focus on 1986's "Somewhere In Time" LP, plus other classic cuts.

As was the case at all the previous gigs on this tour, IRON MAIDEN's set at the Empire Polo Club included "Days Of Future Past", "The Time Machine", "Death Of The Celts" and "Hell On Earth" from "Senjutsu", along with "Alexander The Great" from "Somewhere In Time".

According to Desert Sun, "festivalgoers were already crowding the entrances by 3:40 p.m., 20 minutes before gates were scheduled to open, but they had to stand in the 103-degree Fahrenheit (approximately 39 degrees Celsius) heat for much longer, because security didn't start letting people in until 4:18 p.m."

IRON MAIDEN's setlist was as follows:

01. Caught Somewhere In Time02. Stranger In A Strange Land03. The Writing On The Wall04. Days Of Future Past05. The Time Machine06. The Prisoner07. Death Of The Celts08. Can I Play With Madness09. Heaven Can Wait10. Alexander The Great11. Fear Of The Dark12. Iron Maiden

Encore:

13. Hell On Earth14. The Trooper15. Wasted Years

GUNS N' ROSES was the closing band at the three-day Power Trip Friday night. AC/DC will play at 9:25 p.m. and JUDAS PRIEST at 6:45 p.m. on Saturday, October 7; METALLICA will close the event at 9:35 p.m. and TOOL will kick off at 6:55 p.m. on Sunday, October 8.

JUDAS PRIEST is filling the slot originally reserved for Ozzy Osbourne, who canceled his appearance at Power Trip in July due to his ongoing health issues.

This past March, AC/DC, METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN, OZZY OSBOURNE, GUNS N' ROSES and TOOL shared a teaser video for Power Trip that featured iconic metal images, including a Gibson SG guitar, a stack of amplifiers and cactuses creating the "devil horns", plus logos of each of the six bands.

Power Trip will mark AC/DC's first concert since September 2016, when the band concluded a run of U.S. dates with GUNS N' ROSES' Axl Rose on vocals while frontman Brian Johnson recovered from hearing loss.

METALLICA previously performed at the Empire Polo Grounds in 2011 as part of the West Coast installment of the "Big Four" event, also featuring ANTHRAX, MEGADETH and SLAYER.

The similarly named Desert Trip festival was held in 2016 and featured performances by THE ROLLING STONES, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters and THE WHO. That event was reportedly the single most lucrative music festival in American history, having grossed $160 million.

Power Trip. Iron Maiden - Stanger in a Strange land.

Posted by Joel Steele on Saturday, October 7, 2023

Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, and Morgan Wallen headline the three-day country music festival in Indio as windblown gusts reach over 60 mph.

Patch Staff

City News Service, News Partner

|Updated Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 9:27 am PT

INDIO, CA—Ticketholders and campers heading to the Stagecoach Country Music Festival arrived Thursday morning amid a Wind Advisory for the Coachella Valley. The festival, headlined by Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, and Morgan Wallen, will be held Friday to Sunday at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. However, campgrounds opened on Thursday for a 9 a.m. check-in.

According to city officials, approximately 40,000 guests will be shuttled to and from varying locations throughout the Coachella Valley to and from the concert venue to help ease traffic conditions. More information can be found at www.indio.org.

Camper Check-In:

According to festival officials, campers can check in as early as 9 a.m. and must check out by 10 a.m. Monday after the festival concludes. From 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. Thursday, Avenue 52 will close between Monroe Street and Madison Street to accommodate the arrival of campers.

Non-campers can find their parking spots in the general parking area as early as 9 a.m. Friday to Sunday before the venue opens at noon each day. Shuttle services will begin departing from local hotels at 11:30 p.m. each day.

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About Stagecoach Festival 2024:

The annual three-day festival will be held Friday to Sunday at the Empire Polo Club, 81800 51st Ave. The venue will also feature a Ferris wheel, the Compton Cowboys, Guy Fieri's Stagecoach Smokehouse, and a Honkytonk Dance Hall.

"Guy and his guests will be showcasing their pits and rigs, offering live demos throughout the weekend," a spokesperson for the event said. The barbecue experience includes a full bar, food and a shaded seating area. Fieri's guests will appear from 3 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Come to see Pat Martin, Adam Perry Lang, and Rashad Jones on Friday. On Saturday, Martin, Lang, and Chris Conger will be his guests. On Sunday, Conger and Jones will join him.

Fieri will also hang out with artists from 5 to 5:40 p.m. each day. Friday, come to see Jelly Roll; Saturday, he will be joined by Clint Black and DIPLO. Sunday, Fieri will hang out with HARDY and Bailey Zimmerman, according to the Stagecoach news release.

Friday night's performers include Jelly Roll, Elle King, Dwight Yoakam, Carin Leon, and Paul Cauthen.

On Saturday, Miranda Lambert will headline, closing the night after appearances by Post Malone, Willie Nelson, Leon Bridges, Ernest and Charley Crockett.

Set times for each day are available at www.stagecoachfestival.com.

Festival attendees will have the opportunity to attend late-night performances on the Palomino stage, which will include Nickelback, Diplo and Wiz Khalifa, according to festival organizers.

Road Closures Thursday Through Monday Near Stagecoach Country Music Festival:

Drivers were advised to use caution upon arrival and pack their patience as numerous road closures and diverted traffic were already in place. Blowing dust and gusts of up to 65 miles per hour were expected in some areas, leading to road closures in some areas, police reported.

Road closures will be in effect early Thursday to accommodate campers' arrival at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

According to a city statement, from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. Thursday, Avenue 52 will close between Monroe Street and Madison Street, and alternate routes are recommended on Dr. Carreon Boulevard, Highway 111, and Avenues 54, 49, and 48.

"Previously announced road closures continue to be in place. Avenue 50 between Monroe Street and Madison Avenue will be closed through Monday, May 6," city officials wrote. "The closure is necessary to protect the safety of workers, residents, and commuters."

City officials said significant traffic was expected on Avenue 48, Highway 111, Interstate 10, and Jefferson, Washington, and Monroe streets from Thursday to Sunday.

Road closures near the venue — on Avenue 49, Avenue 50, Hjorth Street, and Madison Street — were set to be in place from Friday to Monday.

Golf carts are not allowed on any of the affected streets near the festival.

According to city officials, delays on streets surrounding the festival site and on Interstate 10 would continue through Monday as 40,000 campers were expected to leave the area. Motorists were encouraged to take alternate routes if traveling near the affected areas.

An Uber location will be located on the southwest corner of Avenue 49 and Monroe Street, while friend, family, and taxi drop-off and pick-ups are expected to be on the northeast corner of Avenue 52 and Madison Street. More information can be found at www.indio.org.

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