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On April 10, a documentary profiling the festival's 20-year history, Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert, was released on YouTube to coincide with the original start date of the 2020 event. [121] The 2021 festival was also cancelled as a result of pandemic restrictions in California and the threats of the COVID-19 variants. [122]
The Weeknd performing at Coachella 2012. Coachella is a music festival organized by the Los Angeles-based concert promoter Goldenvoice (a subsidiary of AEG Live).It takes place annually at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.
The origin of the name Coachella is unclear. Some locals believe it was a misspelling of conchilla, a Spanish word for the small white snail shells found in the valley's sandy soil, vestiges of a lake that dried up over 3,000 years ago. Coachella began as a 2.5-square-mile (6.5 km 2) territory gridded out on the mesquite-covered desert floor ...
Throughout its 24 years, the desert festival has led with the biggest names in music. Inga Parkel runs through Coachella’s entire history of star-studded headliners since 1999 ahead of the 2023 ...
Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Green Day and Post Malone will headline the 2025 Coachella festival, promoters confirmed Wednesday in a complete lineup reveal. The 24th installment of the desert festival ...
Coachella marks the beginning of music festival season, which means an influx of fringe, cut-offs, crop tops and over-accessorizing -- not to mention the inevitable presence of offensive Native ...
The full lineup was announced on January 16, 2024. The 2024 event is the third year back [4] after it was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] Ticket sales of the event were reported to be the slowest in a decade. [6] Past years had sold out on the same day with week one of the 2024 festival taking 27 days to sell out. [7]
Thirty-two million people attend music festivals every year in the U.S. Over half (51 percent) of those attendees are women. But on stage, the demographics are very different. Coachella’s 2016 lineup included 168 male artists and just 60 female artists — a figure that includes both all-female and mixed-gender acts.