Coachella

What: The ‘Indie’ music fes­ti­val, the Coachel­la music and arts fes­ti­val is a con­sec­u­tive three-day week­end cel­e­bra­tion of both pop­u­lar and estab­lished musi­cal artists and indie and local music, that also fea­tures art instal­la­tions and cul­tures, and owing to the con­tin­u­ous par­ty atmos­phere cre­at­ed by the fes­ti­val goers who set up camp in the grounds of the fes­ti­val, one of the wildest, freest and fun fes­ti­vals in the world.

Held in the Col­orado desert on the brink of Cal­i­for­nia, Coachel­la has devel­oped from a small rebel­lion against ‘Tick­et­mas­ter cul­ture’ into a sev­er­al stage fes­ti­val attend­ed by hun­dreds of thou­sands with the iden­ti­cal line-up on both week­ends of the fes­ti­val show­cas­ing the best of indie, hip-hop, elec­tro, dance and inter­na­tion­al acts, mak­ing sure that what­ev­er your artis­tic taste there’s some­thing for you view and take part in at Coachel­la.

When: Coachel­la takes place over two con­sec­u­tive three-day week­ends in April, with each week­end last­ing from the Fri­day to mid­night on the Sun­day and the line-ups and acts being almost iden­ti­cal for the two week­ends. 

Where: Coachel­la takes place in the Col­orado desert, in Indio Cal­i­for­nia on the long fields of the Empire Polo Club, where food and drink stands, show­er and toi­let facil­i­ties and a huge cam­paign site as well as the many Coachel­la stages are all put in place on the fields of the Polo club.

With the exact address for Coachel­la being the Empire Polo club 81–800 Avenue 51, Indio, CA 92201.

Dura­tion: the fes­ti­val lasts over the course of three days, through­out which the music, par­ties and art exhibits going on from dawn to mid­night each day, and the ‘inter­na­tion­al’ and main acts being the ones to close out each day of the fes­ti­val.

For the music acts, set times vary based on the artist, with the full sched­ule and set-times for the dif­fer­ent stages released on the offi­cial Coachel­la app a few days before the first week­end of the fes­ti­val.

Tick­ets: Tick­ets for Caoach­lle go on sale and are only avail­able from the offi­cial Coachel­la web­site at [https://www.coachella.com/buying-passes#info335].

To pur­chase tick­ets atten­dees are first required to sign up to Coachel­la web­site in advance and sign up for the pre-sale reg­is­tra­tion. Then on the 6^th Jan­u­ary at 12pm PT (or prob­a­bly a lit­tle bit before) get your­self onto the tick­et­ing web­site above and join the vir­tu­al wait­ing room, when the tick­et sales open at both 12pm PT and 3pm PT, you can fol­low the steps to pur­chase tick­ets for either the first or sec­ond week­end of the fes­ti­val, with tick­ets lim­it­ed to 4 per per­son and being shipped to atten­dees direct­ly.

In terms of tick­et­ing options, there are no sin­gle day passess for Coachel­la, so you have to pay for a 3‑day pass regard­less of whether you intend to attend all three day, with prices and tick­et­ing options being a gen­er­al admis­sion tick­et at $429, a cam­paign and fes­ti­val tick­et at $$531 and an admis­sion and shut­tle option at $504, depend­ing on how you choose to make your way to Coachel­la and whether you intend­ed on cam­paign or stay­ing in accom­mo­da­tion.

Need to Know: It’s advised to arrive sev­er­al hours before to the site before the acts you wish to see begin, as con­ges­tion and crowd­ing can kick in hours in advance, also be sure to pre-reg­is­ter in advance for tick­ets and if not camp­ing book accom­mo­da­tion well in advance that is on the line and route of the shut­tle bus or taxi ser­vices.

Also be warned that the tem­per­a­tures at Coachel­la can dip and change sud­den­ly from the sin­gle dig­its to the high 40’s – so bring sun screen, but also a cou­ple of lay­ers to be pre­pared for the weath­er. 

More Infor­ma­tion: For infor­ma­tion about the Coachel­la line-up, the exact dates of the fes­ti­val, fur­ther FAQs and to pre-reg­is­ter and pur­chase tick­ets vis­it: [https://www.coachella.com/]