Coachella, Stagecoach Officially Postponed
It’s now official: the Coachella and Stagecoach festivals have been postponed resulting from issues over the coronavirus outbreak. Organizers Goldenvoice launched a press release on March 10:
On the route of the County of Riverside and native well being authorities, we should sadly affirm the rescheduling of Coachella and Stagecoach resulting from COVID-19 issues. Whereas this determination comes at a time of common uncertainty, we take the security and well being of our visitors, workers and group very significantly. We urge everybody to observe the rules and protocols put forth by public well being officers.
Coachella will now happen on October 9, 10 and 11 and October 16, 17 and 18, 2020. Stagecoach will happen on October 23, 24 and 25, 2020. All purchases for the April dates will probably be honored for the rescheduled October dates. Purchasers will probably be notified by Friday, March 13 on how one can get hold of a refund if they’re unable to attend.
Thanks to your continued assist and we stay up for seeing you within the desert this fall.
Dominos are falling within the competition world, because the Coachella and Stagecoach postponements observe rapidly on the heels of Friday afternoon’s announcement that South by Southwest is formally off for 2020. That was preceded by a Friday morning information convention formally confirming days of stories that Miami’s EDM-based Extremely Music Competition was being known as off. At present, Miami’s Winter Music Convention was additionally known as off.
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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition, which for a number of years has repeated the identical lineup over two weekends as a substitute of only one, was set to happen April 10-12 and once more April 17-19. The scheduled nightly headliners had been Rage Towards the Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean. Stagecoach, one of many nation’s largest annual nation music festivals, was to observe on the identical grounds in Indio April 24-26, with Carrie Underwood, Eric Church and Thomas Rhett within the headline slots.
It’s value noting that 2016’s Desert Journey competition, in any other case often known as Oldchella, was a really profitable music gathering that was held within the fall — from October 7 to 9 and 14 to 16 — on the identical web site as Coachella and Stagecoach: Indio’s Empire Polo Membership (polo is barely performed on the grounds from January to March). Desert Journey featured the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Younger, Roger Waters and The Who on the invoice and grossed greater than $160 million.
