Sabrina Carpenter’s 'Sabrinawood' Set

Sabrina Carpenter turned Coachella’s main stage into “Sabrinawood” on Friday, April 10, headlining the festival with an Old Hollywood-themed set in Indio, California. (hollywoodreporter.com) The Hollywood Reporter said Carpenter’s night included celebrity cameos from Sam Elliott, Susan Sarandon and Will Ferrell, with the show starting just after 9 p.m. local time. Yahoo’s recap said the set ran about 90 minutes and included a large “Sabrinawood” sign modeled on the Hollywood Hills landmark. (hollywoodreporter.com, yahoo.com) Yahoo reported Carpenter performed 20 songs during the headline slot, drawing from *Man’s Best Friend* and *Short n’ Sweet*, and introduced “We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night” live for the first time. A separate Yahoo report said fans had already been posting clips and the full setlist online by early Saturday, April 11. (yahoo.com, yahoo.com) The set landed two years after Carpenter’s widely noticed 2024 Coachella appearance, which Yahoo said helped set up her return to Indio as a 2026 headliner. The Hollywood Reporter said she even referenced that jump onstage, joking about having called her shot. (yahoo.com, hollywoodreporter.com) Coachella’s official site lists the festival’s 2026 dates as April 10-12 and April 17-19, and its livestream page said performances were carried live on YouTube across both weekends. That gave Carpenter’s set an audience far beyond the polo fields on opening night. (coachella.com, coachella.com) One of the clips moving fastest after the show was Carpenter’s performance of “Espresso,” which appeared on YouTube as a standalone video from the set. The song remains one of the clearest bridges between her 2024 breakout run and this larger 2026 festival staging. (youtube.com) Yahoo’s coverage framed the night as a full-scale pop spectacle, with branded pre-show activations, dancers and film-style staging built around Carpenter’s screen-star image. The Hollywood Reporter described the overall design as vintage Hollywood, extending the persona she has been building across recent videos and live shows. (yahoo.com, hollywoodreporter.com) By Saturday morning, April 11, the performance was already being recapped less as a standard festival booking than as a fully built Carpenter world. In the desert, that world had a name, a sign and a headliner slot to match. (yahoo.com, hollywoodreporter.com)