Coachella & Stagecoach Off… Again
• In can what best be termed a not-so-shocking development, the April dates of the already rescheduled Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and its companion Stagecoach Country festival have been canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. That’s the word from Riverside County (CA) Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser, whose office tells Variety that “it remains possible that the festivals could be rescheduled for later in the year, although she deferred to Goldenvoice, the festivals’ promoter, for further details.”
The order specifies “The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival currently scheduled for April 2021 are hereby cancelled.” Coachella, which normally runs over two weekends, regularly sells out its 125,000 per day tickets immediately.
Just to clarify, we’re still talking about Coachella 2020 — with headliners Travis Scott, Frank Ocean and Rage Against the Machine originally scheduled for April 2020 — along with Stagecoach — were initially moved to October 2020, and then postponed again to April 2021. A visit to the Coachella website shows no 2021 dates listed at all, and, in fact, the home page now defaults to the Coachella “shopping” page, where you can buy shirts and assorted merch… but no tickets.
As the Variety story theorizes, “the likelihood of any major music festivals taking place in 2021 seems questionable. Last week, the Glastonbury Festival, England’s largest music gathering, was canceled for a second consecutive year as the virus spiked anew in the country.”
