The Coachella Valley is the place to be in festival season, with tens of thousands of people coming here just for Coachella and Stagecoach alone. It can spike demand for everything from vacation rentals to hotels to rideshares. And people are paying the price. Friday night at the Nest, one of the valley’s hot spots
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The set times for Weekend 2 of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival have been released! One of the immediately notable changes is that Arcade Fire is not on the list of performers this weekend. The popular band performed a surprise set on Friday on Weekend 1. Another notable change is singer Bishop Briggs has
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Renowned Regional Mexican group Grupo Firme will be honored with the key to the city of Coachella on Friday. The band is fresh from performing Weekend 1 of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival. 🔥🔥 @GrupoFirme pic.twitter.com/nKj0eT1nTW— Coachella (@coachella) April 16, 2022 Coachella Mayor Steven Hernandez and the city council will present the band with
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Every year during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festivals (CVMAF) people look forward to the many performances and art structures. A Coachella Valley local got the opportunity to produce one of the pieces standing at Empire Polo Club this year. Cristopher Cichocki said he has lived in almost every city of the Coachella Valley
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A 32-year-old Orange County man accused of assaulting an Indio police officer and leading law enforcement on a brief chase near the Coachella Music & Arts Festival has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer and other offenses. Michael Anthony Berber of Fountain Valley made his initial court appearance Wednesday
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Festival season is still in full swing in the desert with Coachella Weekend Two kicking off in just a few days. And this time around, festival goers can ditch the masks when taking an Uber or Lyft. “I think it’s good, I think pretty much everyone is vaccinated and at the festival there’s not mask
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An Indio police officer who was struck by a fleeing suspect vehicle near the site of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival has been discharged from a hospital. It happened at 10:46 Saturday night at Calle Conejo and Avenue 48 when the officer attempted to stop the driver for not following traffic controls put in
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As the first weekend of the 2022 Coachella Music and Arts Festival wraps up, News Channel 3 requested arrest and citation information from Indio Police. Indio Police tell News Channel 3 that traffic-related citations are up 41% and arrests are up 13% since the last Coachella Weekend 1, which was back in 2019. Indio Police
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Leah Dolan, CNN This weekend sees the return of Coachella after a three-year pandemic-induced hiatus. And, as ever, there will be as much written about the festival’s fashion as its performances. But while the event was once classed among the most stylish outings on the cultural calendar — thanks to its celebrity attendees and exclusive
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You will probably want to avoid the 10 freeway today, especially heading westbound, if possible. That roadway and the surface streets surrounding the Indio polo fields will be busy as Coachella Music Festival attendees head out of the area. Pre-pandemic, this was an annual occurrence, but it’s back for the first time since 2019. The
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INDIO (CNS) – Day two of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival is underway at the Empire Polo Club with a jam-packed lineup that features festival staples and newcomers, a goodbye performance and the possibility of unreleased music being debuted by one of hip-hop’s biggest stars. A shirtless Justin Bieber and a Harry Styles-Shania Twain
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Many people come to the Coachella Valley for the festivals through different modes of transportation. There is one helicopter service that is chartering rides into Thermal from Santa Monica, helping ease some traffic through the weekend. Thousands of cars full of festival-goers are hitting the road this weekend to get to Coachella Music Festival. But
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Rancho 51 – Festival Campgrounds is a place for those attending the music festivals to camp out, but this year it’s going the extra mile to give back to some of the youth in the Coachella area. Every year Rancho 51 welcomes hundreds of people onto their property to offer them a piece of the
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Festival season is in full swing. With the Coachella Valley Music Festival is just a day away, we’ve seen thousands festival goers make their way through the gates where they’ll call the campgrounds their home for the weekend. This, as the festival gets ready to kick off after being canceled for 2 years due to
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“Chella, Celebrando a la Communidad,” is returning to the city of Indio on April 20! The FREE one-day music festival will be held at Bliss Avenue and Towne Street in downtown Indio from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Goldenvoice is organizing the festival, in partnership with the city of Indio and Vallarta Supermarkets. “Formerly a
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The set times for Weekend 1 of the 2022 Coachella Music & Arts Festival have finally been released! Gates will open at noon each day of the festival that begins Friday, with performances beginning on various stages as attendees make their way into the event. The festival will be headlined by Harry Styles, Billie Eilish,
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Singer The Weeknd and electronic dance music trio Swedish House mafia will replacing Kanye West at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio later this month. Organizers of the festival shared the new lineup on the festival’s official Twitter page today. The Party & The After Party pic.twitter.com/8gT2bF3x5j— Coachella (@coachella) April 6, 2022 The
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We now know who will headline Sundays at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Organizers Goldenvoice announced on Twitter Wednesday morning that The Weeknd will join Swedish House Mafia to fill the void left by the absence of rapper Ye, also known as Kanye West, who pulled out from the show this week. The
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Local Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz introduced legislation on Tuesday that would restrict airspace around large concerts and music festivals, such as Coachella and Stagecoach. H.R. 5827, the Protecting Outdoor Concerts Act, would keep workers, concertgoers, and Valley residents safe at major concert events, Ruiz’s office announced. T This legislation specifically directs the FAA to grant a
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An online petition is calling on Coachella organizers Goldenvoice and Paul Tollett to remove rapper Travis Scott from music festivals after a deadly crowd surge at his concert in Houston. Tollett confirmed that Travis Scott would return to the Coachella stage when discussing the music festival’s return to the Empire Polo Club in Indio in
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