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Besides the expansion of the festival from 2 days to 3 days, I find it interesting that the promoters are dabbling in Country. I wonder if it will be a camping festival as well.
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will expand to a three-day event for the first time in 2007 when it overtakes the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. on April 27-29. The following weekend (May 5-6), Coachella promoters Goldenvoice will launch an as-yet-unnamed country music festival at the same venue, featuring George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Sugarland and Willie Nelson.
According to a spokesperson, the new event will sport four performance stages: the main stage, an "outlaw" stage, a bluegrass stage and a "storytelling" area, the latter of which will feature appearances by "Prairie Home Companion" creator Garrison Keillor and Texas poet laureate Red Steagall.
Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Nickel Creek, Ricky Skaggs, Earl Scruggs and Sparrow Quarter featuring Bela Fleck will also perform at the inaugural festival.
Ironically, while country music is a consistently strong seller in southern California, the area's lone country station, KZLA, abandoned the format in favor of a pop playlist earlier this year.
The expansion comes eight years into Coachella's existence, during which time the event has become the premiere yearly musical destination for thousands of fans around the world. The lineup for the 2007 edition of Coachella will not be announced until late January or early February, but Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela recently confirmed to Billboard.com they would be participating
Post by ziggyandthemonkeys on Nov 21, 2006 5:28:34 GMT -5
crazykittensmile said:
i've never been to coachella, but it's a big deal around here.
i was always under the impression that you could camp there?
While its not really even an option for me to go to coachella, so i dont know much about it, i do believe its camping. I think he was questioning whether the country festival would be camping as well, not coachella. I hate most country like keney chesney, so the headliners dont thrill me at all, but the supporting acts are pretty good.
Yeah, thats the point I ws making about the camping.
As far the acts I feel the same about the headliners except for Willie. The supports acts look good and I like how they will have themed stages.
ziggyandthemonkeys said:
crazykittensmile said:
i've never been to coachella, but it's a big deal around here.
i was always under the impression that you could camp there?
While its not really even an option for me to go to coachella, so i dont know much about it, i do believe its camping. I think he was questioning whether the country festival would be camping as well, not coachella. I hate most country like keney chesney, so the headliners dont thrill me at all, but the supporting acts are pretty good.
Post by steveternal on Dec 8, 2006 14:02:20 GMT -5
So this country fest will take place the weekend immediately following Coachella? I can't decide if that's genius or stupidity, but, to paraphrase the great David St. Hubbins, it is a fine line between them.
