The distinctions — and similarities — among the Coachella and Stagecoach festivals

Indio — 

Just after back again-to-back weekends of the Coachella Valley Audio and Arts Festival, with performances from a reunited No Question, Tyler, the Creator, Lana Del Rey and Doja Cat (total with an entourage of sexy Yetis), sister occasion the Stagecoach Country Music Competition has rolled into Indio’s Empire Polo Club.

Stagecoach, which will aspect performances by Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Morgan Wallen, Willie Nelson, Write-up Malone, Dwight Yoakam and some others, has grown in popularity since it started in 2007. This calendar year it marketed out well in progress of the fest.

So if you are thinking how Southern California’s two major music festivals, examine, here’s a primer.

The new music

When the lineups are vastly various, there is one particular artist who is expending three consecutive weekends in Indio: Carin León. The regional Mexican songs star captivated crowds at Coachella’s twin weekends. (León joins a smaller club of artists who have performed each fests, together with fellow Stagecoach 2024 performers Willie Nelson, Trampled by Turtles and Submit Malone, but it is even extra unusual to perform both fests in the similar 12 months, as Nelson has.)

Although Coachella is identified for a good deal of pulsing EDM beats, that has begun to transfer around to Stagecoach in recent several years, with Diplo’s name now branding the indoor Honkytonk dance tent that begun out as a spot for standard line dancing.

The grounds

The Stagecoach footprint is significantly scaled-down than Coachella’s. The VIP rose backyard is not part of the fest, nor is the hulking Sahara Tent, even though it can be found in the distance.

The Mane Stage is set up 90 levels clockwise from wherever Coachella’s premier stage was, but at Stagecoach there are fewer phases total. Stagecoach‘s greatest tunes areas are the Mane, Palomino (Coachella’s Mojave Tent) and Diplo’s Honkytonk (Coachella’s Yuma Tent). The air-conditioned Sonora Tent has been reworked into the Bud Light Yard, with performances through the weekend, but it is not a entire slate of music like it was at Coachella. Some stars who are playing early on the Mane phase, like Josh Ross, Kylie Morgan and The War and Treaty, will carry out a second established at the Bud Mild Yard for the duration of the weekend. The Stagecoach-special Toyota Tunes Den attributes up-and-coming artists these as Shaylen and RVSHVD.

Coachella’s Gobi Tent has been turned into the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch with meet-and-greets with solid customers of “Yellowstone” and “1923” and a merch collaboration concerning Yellowstone and Stagecoach.

Stagecoach also has VIP seated and standing sections, with the standard admission enthusiasts currently being even further out on the discipline for the Mane stage, and supporters can carry in garden chairs, which is a no-no for Coachella. The other stages are like Coachella with initially-arrive, first-to-get-shut-to-the-phase access.

Coachella’s craft-beer barn place has been renamed for the Mayor of Flavortown himself, Guy Fieri, and the foods stalls from the very last two weekends have been replaced with a massive RV and place for Fieri and friends’ cooking demos all weekend long. Probably the best detail of the place: a smoker with Flavortown branding that has a metallic sculpture of a bull’s head with red eyes.

Equally festivals provide the standards of pizza and hen tenders, but quite a few of the L.A. dining establishments that ended up at Coachella both of those weekends have decamped. Whilst you can obtain some plant-based choices, they aren’t as plentiful as at Coachella, even though Stagecoach effortlessly has the far better barbecue match.

Outdoors of the primary festival grounds, Stagecoach allows RV tenting and you can only obtain the campgrounds if you are camping.

There is also a space at Stagecoach for demonstrations with the Compton Cowboys.

Oh, and that lush eco-friendly grass you observed on everyone’s Instagram through Coachella? It’s primarily absent now.

The artwork

When the rainbow Spectra tower is a long lasting set up on the grounds at this point, most of the huge installation artwork that made the landscape of Coachella is gone.

However, not far from Spectra is Mismo, an artwork set up of colorful paisley teardrop sculptures by Sofia Enriquez that was at first aspect of the method at Coachella 2019.

Stagecoach also has a couple of items of huge state-themed art, like a horse sculpture and a cowboy boot.

The Ferris wheel is not really art but definitely a landmark, and it continues to be in the exact spot for each fests.

The stuff

Stagecoach is entire of totally free things. If you have T-Cell you can get a absolutely free garden chair at their activation. The Bud Light-weight Backyard enable followers select up a customized koozie with a decision of four layouts. There are also no cost goodies at the Toyota Audio den, like the favorite Stagecoach bandanna.

At Coachella, there ended up Neutrogena sunscreen kiosks exactly where you could lather on some cost-free sunblock.

The style

Cowboy hats, boots and fringe have been favourite manner possibilities at both fests in 2024, but the wild and colourful fashionistas of Coachella aren’t posing around the discipline at Stagecoach. There is, on the other hand, much extra plaid, and gear coated in American flag prints.

Mullets are unquestionably back again, with Peso Pluma’s Edgar design and style the most popular at Coachella. At Stagecoach, you see some youthful people today with mullets but you even now at times spot somebody who has been rocking the style considering that the early ’90s.

The a single accessory that you will see at both? Bandannas, not just for vogue but a need to to check out to stave off the festival cough with the gusty winds blowing dust all over the web site. That’s a souvenir no person desires to get again with them.