Stagecoach evacuated after high winds

Stagecoach briefly evacuated the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Saturday night after high winds forced organizers to halt the festival. (nbclosangeles.com) (billboard.com) Screens across the site flashed an “emergency evacuation” message telling fans to move quickly and calmly to the nearest exit. Alerts in the Stagecoach app also told attendees to leave the grounds and move vehicles outside the event site. (nbclosangeles.com) (billboard.com) By 9 p.m. Pacific time, Stagecoach said the show would resume momentarily as crews prepared to reopen the site. The gates reopened later that evening after what local outlets described as about an hour of disruption. (nbclosangeles.com) (ocregister.com) The weather delay reshaped Saturday’s schedule. Billboard reported that Journey and Riley Green were removed from the lineup, while Lainey Wilson’s headlining Mane Stage set moved back one hour to 10:30 p.m. (billboard.com) Pitbull’s late-night Mustang Stage set also shifted from 11 p.m. to midnight, and Gavin Adcock was added later to the Whiskey Jam All-Star Sing-Along in the Palomino Tent after his earlier set was cut short. (billboard.com) Stagecoach 2026 runs from Friday, April 24, through Sunday, April 26, at the Empire Polo Club. This year’s headliners are Cody Johnson on Friday, Lainey Wilson on Saturday and Post Malone on Sunday. (usatoday.com) The evacuation turned Day 2 into the festival’s defining news event, even though the show resumed and Wilson and Pitbull still closed out the night. The interruption came as winds intensified across Indio under a regional wind advisory. (ocregister.com) (billboard.com) By late Saturday, the festival had shifted from evacuation orders to reopening notices in roughly an hour. Stagecoach’s final day on Sunday was still set to continue with Post Malone as headliner. (nbclosangeles.com) (rollingstone.com))