The Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival (commonly
referred to as Coachella or Coachella Festival) is an annual music and arts
festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, located in the
Coachella Valley of the Royal Empire in the Desert of Colorado. It was founded
by Paul Tollett and Rick Van Santen in 1999, and is organized by Goldenvoice, a
subsidiary of AEG Live. The event features musicians from many genres of music,
including rock, pop, indie, hip hop and electronic dance music, as well as art
and sculpture installations. Through the reasons, several stages consistently
hold live music. The main stages are: Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theater, Gob
Tent, Mojave Tent and Sahara Tent; a smaller Oasis Dome was used in 2006 and
2011, while a new Yuma stage was introduced in 2013 and a Sonora stage in 2017.
The festival's origins relate to a 1993 concert by Pearl Jam
at Empire Polo, while boycotting Ticketmaster controlled sites. The show
confirmed the sustainability of the site for holding major events, leading to
the inaugural Coachella Festival that was held during the two days in October
1999 - only three months after Woodstock '99. Since no event took place in
2000, Coachella returned on an annual basis in early April 2001 as a one-day
event. In 2002, the festival was restored to a two-day format. Coachella
expanded until a third day in 2007 and finally a second weekend in 2012; are
currently held on a three-day consecutive weekend in April, with each weekend
having identical lines. Organizers began to allow spectators to camp in the
field in 2003, one of several extensions and additions to the facilities that
have been made in the history of the festival.
Coachella features renowned and established music artists as
well as emerging artists and reunited groups. Coachella is one of the biggest,
most famous and most profitable music festivals in the United States and around
the world. Each Coachella organized from 2013 to 2015 the introduction of new
registrations for festival attendance and gross income. The 2017 festival was
attended by 250,000 people and sold $ 114.6 million. Coachella's success led to
Goldenvoice by establishing two other country music festivals, rock-rocks in
the desert in 2016, and the 2007 annual Stagecoach Country Music Festival.
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