{"id":2415141,"date":"2026-05-13T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2415141"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:02:21","slug":"coachella-festival-history-performers-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/coachella-festival-history-performers-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Coachella | Festival, History, Performers, &#038; Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ref1\"><!--[PREMOD1]--><span class=\"marker PREMOD1 mod-inline\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"topic-paragraph\"><strong><span id=\"ref1105814\"\/>Coachella<\/strong>,  annual <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/rock-festival\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">rock festival<\/a> held at the Empire Polo Club in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Indio\" class=\"md-crosslink autoxref \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Indio<\/a>, California, featuring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/music\" class=\"md-crosslink autoxref \" data-show-preview=\"true\">music<\/a> on multiple stages.<\/p>\n<p><!--[MOD1]--><span class=\"marker MOD1 mod-inline\"\/><!--[PREMOD2]--><span class=\"marker PREMOD2 mod-inline\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"assemblies\">\n<div class=\"w-100 assembly-container\">\n<figure class=\"md-assembly m-0 mb-md-0 card card-borderless print-false\" data-assembly-id=\"278702\" data-asm-type=\"image\"><figcaption class=\"card-body\">\n<div class=\"md-assembly-caption text-muted font-14 font-serif line-clamp\"><span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"gtm-assembly-link md-assembly-title font-weight-bold d-inline font-sans-serif mr-5 media-overlay-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/47\/242447-050-CB3185FD\/Tents-Coachella-Valley-Music-and-Arts-Festival.jpg\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/media\/1\/1563787\/278702\">Coachella<\/a><span>The grounds of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, 2013.<\/span><button class=\"js-more-btn d-none btn btn-unstyled font-12 bg-white js-content\" aria-label=\"Toggle more\/less fact data\"><span class=\"link-blue\">(more)<\/span><\/button><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"topic-paragraph\">The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival began in October 1999 as a two-day festival. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Beck\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Beck<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Rage-Against-the-Machine\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Rage Against the Machine<\/a> headlined, and more than 25,000 people <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off eb\" data-term=\"attended\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/dictionary\/attended\" data-type=\"EB\">attended<\/a>, but the festival failed to make money. It was held just months after the disastrous <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Woodstock\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Woodstock<\/a> \u201999, and it was unclear if promoters could turn a profit on a weekend-long multistage event. Coachella\u2019s organizers took a year off and then brought the festival back as a one-day event in April 2001. (The change in month was also an effort to avoid high temperatures in the desert heat.) Coachella returned to a two-day format the following April and expanded to a third day in 2010. Two years later it became a six-day event, spread across two consecutive weekends.<\/p>\n<p><!--[MOD2]--><span class=\"marker MOD2 mod-inline\"\/><!--[PREMOD3]--><span class=\"marker PREMOD3 mod-inline\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"topic-paragraph\">Although <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/electronic-music\" class=\"md-crosslink autoxref \" data-show-preview=\"true\">electronic music<\/a> tends to be better represented at Coachella than at other festivals, lineups have included the top names in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/rock-music\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">rock<\/a>, pop, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/hip-hop\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">hip-hop<\/a>, with a blend of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off eb\" data-term=\"emerging\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/dictionary\/emerging\" data-type=\"EB\">emerging<\/a> artists and established performers. Organizers remained committed to keeping the festival fresh, and very few acts have made repeat appearances. Headlining artists have included <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Madonna-American-singer-and-actress\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Madonna<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Jay-Z\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Jay-Z<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Portishead-British-music-group\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Portishead<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Paul-McCartney\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Paul McCartney<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Beyonce\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Harry-Styles\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Harry Styles<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Megan-Thee-Stallion\" class=\"md-crosslink autoxref \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Bad-Bunny\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Bad Bunny<\/a>. High-profile reunions were also a fixture of the festival, with groups such as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Pavement-band\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Pavement<\/a>, Faith No More, the Specials, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Iggy-and-the-Stooges\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Iggy and the Stooges<\/a> taking to the stage for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-qf-module qf-module px-40 px-sm-20 py-15 mx-auto module-spacing font-14 bg-gray-50 rounded\">\n<div class=\"facts-list mt-10\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"js-fact mb-10 line-clamp clamp-3\">\n<dl>\n<dt>In full: <\/dt>\n<dd>Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"js-more-btn d-none btn btn-unstyled font-12 bg-gray-50\" aria-label=\"Toggle more\/less fact data\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<em class=\"js-content link-blue\">(Show\u00a0more)<\/em><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link-module shadow-sm d-block qa-quiz-module\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/quiz\/sound-check-musical-vocabulary-quiz\"><\/p>\n<p>        <\/p>\n<div class=\"line-clamp clamp-5\">\n<p>Britannica Quiz<\/p>\n<p>Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/a><!--[MOD3]--><span class=\"marker MOD3 mod-inline\"\/><!--[PREMOD4]--><span class=\"marker PREMOD4 mod-inline\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"topic-paragraph\">Aside from experiencing music performances, attendees can view art (especially sculpture) and enjoy food and drink. In 2010 organizers angered some attendees by eliminating single-day tickets in favour of full three-day festival passes. Attendance was not hurt, however, and Coachella set a record by attracting about 75,000 people each day. By the early 2020s, average daily attendance was about 125,000.<\/p>\n<p><!--[MOD4]--><span class=\"marker MOD4 mod-inline\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.britannica.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coachella, annual rock festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, featuring music on multiple stages. CoachellaThe grounds of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, 2013.(more) The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival began in October 1999 as a two-day festival. Beck and Rage Against the Machine headlined, and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2415142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[25138,291457,309908,291456,291455],"class_list":["post-2415141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-article","tag-britannica","tag-coachella","tag-encyclopeadia","tag-encyclopedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Coachella-Festival-History-Performers-Facts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415143,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415141\/revisions\/2415143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}