Stagecoach Festival Starts
- Stagecoach 2026 begins April 24 and runs through April 26 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. - The weekend lineup features headliners Post Malone, Lainey Wilson, and Cody Johnson. - Stagecoach follows Coachella and markets a country-focused program that aims to draw crossover festivalgoers. (latimes.com)
Stagecoach opens Friday, April 24, in Indio, bringing three days of country music and crossover acts back to the Empire Polo Club. (stagecoachfestival.com) The festival runs through Sunday, April 26, at 81-800 Avenue 51, the same desert site that hosted Coachella earlier this month. Organizers list Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Post Malone as the three nightly headliners. (stagecoachfestival.com) Set times released in March show music starting at 1 p.m. and ending at midnight each day. KESQ reported Johnson closes Friday, Wilson tops Saturday, and Post Malone finishes the weekend on Sunday. (kesq.com) Stagecoach has kept the same Indio footprint as Coachella while pitching a different mix of artists. The 2026 lineup pairs country names like Brooks & Dunn, Riley Green and Wyatt Flores with acts including Journey, Ludacris, Pitbull, Noah Cyrus and Third Eye Blind. (stagecoachfestival.com) That crossover strategy also shows up off the main stage. KESQ reported Diplo’s Honkytonk returns with Marshmello, Juicy J, Loud Luxury, DJ Pauly D and comedians Theo Von and Caleb Pressley, while Guy Fieri’s Smokehouse hosts artist appearances across the weekend. (kesq.com) For fans still trying to get in, Stagecoach’s official site says passes, hotel packages and shuttle bundles are still being sold, and the festival is also running a waitlist and exchange system. The pass page lists a six-pack of three-day general admission passes starting at $539 per ticket at Tier 1. (stagecoachfestival.com) Getting to the grounds remains a logistics story as much as a music one. Stagecoach says free day parking is first come, first served, shuttles run from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. to the venue, and return service ends 60 minutes after music stops each night. (stagecoachfestival.com) Organizers are also steering attendees to the festival app before gates open. The app includes set times, maps, wristband registration and schedule planning tools for the weekend. (stagecoachfestival.com) By Friday afternoon, the Coachella grounds will have traded pop spectacle for cowboy hats and steel guitar again. The first artists are scheduled to take the stage at 1 p.m. as Stagecoach starts its 2026 run. (kesq.com)
