Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
- Massive multi-stage music and arts festival with major headliners and art installations. - April 17–19 (this weekend); Indio, CA — day and night sets across the polo grounds. - Official schedule, tickets and festival info at coachella.com
Coachella’s second 2026 weekend is underway in Indio, with three-day sets, large-scale art and overnight camping running through Sunday, April 19. (coachella.com) The official schedule lists Weekend 2 performances on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and the festival site says both weekends share the same lineup, art, food and activities. The official YouTube stream is carrying seven stages live across April 17–19. (coachella.com 1) (coachella.com 2) (coachella.com 3) Coachella’s passes cover all three days, not single-day entry, and the 2026 pass page shows General Admission, General Admission plus shuttle and VIP were sold out as of Sunday. Camping add-ons remained mixed, with some options sold out and others still listed for purchase. (coachella.com) The festival now runs as two back-to-back weekends, April 10–12 and April 17–19 in 2026, a format organizers use to repeat the same program for separate crowds. The current site’s archive lists past editions back to 1999, underscoring how long the event has operated as a recurring California festival brand. (coachella.com 1) (coachella.com 2) (coachella.com 3) Music is only part of the draw on the Empire Polo Field. Coachella’s art program says curators commission large-scale works by artists, architects and designers, then place them across the grounds as landmarks and gathering points. (coachella.com) The logistics are built for an all-day, late-night crowd. The festival info page says camping opens Thursday at 9 a.m., hotel shuttles begin at 1 p.m. from Friday through Sunday, and venue curfew is 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday and midnight Sunday. (coachella.com) Organizers have also pushed more planning into the phone-and-wristband system. The festival says wristband registration is mandatory through the Coachella mobile app, which also handles custom schedules and on-site updates. (coachella.com) (coachella.com) For anyone not in the desert, Coachella is still staging the weekend as a remote event as well as an in-person one. The livestream and app turn a festival spread across polo grounds, camp lots and beer gardens into something fans can follow set by set through Sunday night. (coachella.com) (coachella.com)
