The Coachella Valley music and Arts Festival commonly known as Coachella, Coachellafest or Coachella Festival is a multi-day annual music and arts festival, organized by Goldenvoic and held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley.
The event features many genres of music including rock, indie, Hip Hop and electronic music as well as large sculptural art. The event has several stages/tents set-up throughout the grounds, each playing live music continuously.
The main stages are: Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Gobi Tent, Mojave Tent, and the Sahara Tent
The History:
On the evening of November 5, 1993 the rock band Pearl Jam performed before almost 25,000 fans who stood and sat through the night on the lawns of Indio's historic and previously rock-festival free Empire Polo Club. Although band managment had chosen this untested and under-developed site as part of a boycott of Ticketmaster and the Southern California auditoriums it controlled, the event established the new venue's suitability for large-scale rock events.
Six years later, on October 9 and 10, 1999 the first actual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was held. Due to Woodstock 99's fires and riots, Coachella promoters were not allowed to offer on site camping, a ban that continued until the 2002 festival.
In 2002, the event once again returned to the two-day format, and saw a reunited Siouxsie and the Banshees, as well as headlining acts Björk and Oasis. The strong supporting acts helped prove to the community of Indio, California that the event was capable of bringing in money and ending without conflict.
The headlining act in 2011 was Kanye West and included performances by Mumford & Sons, a reunited Big Audio Dynamite, Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon and the Black Keys among the 190 acts. Just after the 2011 line up was released and tickets became available, the three-day tickets sold out in six days
On May 31, 2011, Goldenvoice announced that the festival will be held over two weekends starting in 2012
Coachella 2012 ticket went on sale at on Jan 13th at 10am and were sold out by 1pm PST. This is by far the festival's fastest sell out to date
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