Coronavirus continues to startle major cities and events.
Inside reports reveal that both Coachella Festival and Stagecoach Music Festival will be announcing scheduling postponement due to concerns over the coronavirus.
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Further reports suggest Goldenvoice is developing a new strategy to re-schedule for consecutive weekends in early October — eyeing an Oct. 9 start.
For several years Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, has repeated the same lineup over two weekends place April 10-12 and again April 17-19.
The scheduled nightly headliners were:
Rage Against the Machine
Travis Scott
Frank Ocean
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Stagecoach, one of the nation’s biggest annual country music festivals
was dated to follow on the same location in Indio April 24-26, with…
Carrie Underwood
Eric Church
Thomas Rhett
2016’s Desert Trip festival, otherwise known as Oldchella, a hugely profitable successful music gathering that was held in the fall — from October 7 to 9 and 14 to 16 — at the same site as Coachella and Stagecoach: Indio’s Empire Polo Club (polo is only played at that location from January to March).
Desert Trip featured:
Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
Paul McCartney
Neil Young
Roger Waters
and The Who
on the bill and grossed more than $160 million.
The Coachella Valley and the city of Indio have the accommodations to receive tens of thousands of attendees. So far local government hasn’t forced a cancelation of Coachella or Stagecoach due to coronavirus, while five cases reported in Riverside County push it closer to a fait accompli.
By moving the festivals as opposed to canceling them, Goldenvoice — and parent company AEG — could shield itself from having to trigger cancelation insurance that may or may not cover communicable diseases.
