Kacey Musgraves pops in

Kacey Musgraves will play Coachella’s second weekend after organizers slipped her into Saturday’s schedule as a surprise performer. (variety.com) She is scheduled for the Mojave tent from 3 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. on Saturday, April 18, during Weekend Two in Indio, California. Coachella’s official schedule lists the festival’s second weekend as April 17 through April 19, 2026. (coachella.com) Musgraves is returning to the festival for her first Coachella performance since 2019. Variety reported that her set was revealed the same way Jack White’s Weekend One appearance was: through the release of updated set times rather than an earlier lineup announcement. (variety.com) That slot gives Coachella another late-added crossover act after White opened Saturday in the same Mojave space during the first weekend. The second weekend otherwise keeps the same three-day festival structure and most of the same billed artists. (variety.com; coachella.com) Musgraves arrives at a moment when she is already in album-release mode. Her official store says her next record, *Middle of Nowhere*, ships on May 1, 2026, and Universal Music Canada said the album was announced on March 11 with the single “Dry Spell.” (kaceymusgraves.com; universalmusic.ca) Her last Coachella run left a durable festival clip behind. Coverage from 2019 in Vulture and E! focused on a call-and-response bit built around “yee” and “haw,” which became one of the more widely shared moments from her set. (vulture.com; eonline.com) Coachella is also streaming both 2026 weekends on YouTube across seven stages, according to the festival’s livestream page. That means Musgraves’ return is positioned not just for the Mojave crowd, but for the same at-home audience that has turned surprise desert sets into instant clips before. (coachella.com) By Saturday afternoon, the surprise will be over and the test will be simple: whether Musgraves turns a quietly posted set time into one of Weekend Two’s most-watched performances. (coachella.com; variety.com)