After a roaring comeback in April following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Stagecoach Country Music Festival is ready to party on for its 15th anniversary at the Empire Polo Club in Indio in 2023.
On Monday, event producers announced the full lineup for the three-day festival scheduled for April 28-30, following both weekends of its Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival sister fest. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 16 at stagecoachfestival.com.
Luke Bryan will headline Friday, April 28 and will kick off the three-day weekend with Jon Pardi, Riley Green, ZZ Top, Elle King, Breland, Melissa Etheridge, Priscilla BLock, Sammy Kershaw, Ian Munsick, Nate Smith, Jackson Dean, Trixie Mattel, Seaforth, Drake Milligan, American Aquarium, Flamin’ Groovies, The Last Bandoleros, Tiera Kennedy, Mackenzie Carpenter and Bella White.
Saturday, April 29 will he headed up by Kane Brown with Old Dominion, Gabby Barrett, Bryan Adams, Niko Moon, Nelly, Morgan Wade, Marty Stuart, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kameron Marlowe, Nikki Lane, Corey Kent, Lily Rose, Restless Road, Cooper Alan, Keb’ Mo’, Avery Anna, Jamie Wyatt, Abbey Cone, Tré Burt and Logan Ledger.
Chris Stapleton will close out Stagecoach on Sunday, April 30 with Brooks & Dunn, Parker McCollum, Tyler Childers, Turnpike Troubadours, Diplo, Lainey Wilson, Ryan Bingham, Parmalee, Bailey Zimmerman, Luke Grimes, Valerie June, Warren Zeiders, Sierra Ferrell, 49 Winchester, Tyler Braden, Madeline Edwards, Kaitlin Butts and Nick Shoulders.
“We’re so excited for Stagecoach next year,” California native Jon Pardi said during a recent phone interview. “There’s something in the air out there … there’s just this energy. It’s the palm trees and the weather and people come from all over and camp out. I think having Coachella out there, too, with the pop, rock and rap music, and then two weeks later everyone changes up their outfits and it’s country time. It’s just really a lot of fun.”
Pardi first played the festival back in 2017 and was was scheduled to perform on the Mane Stage in 2020 before the event was postponed. Though he was unable to adjust his schedule to perform in 2022, he did show up to sing “Beer Can’t Fix” with Friday headliner Thomas Rhett and earlier in the day he came out during Midland’s set to sing their song, “Longneck Way to Go.”
“Oh, I had a blast,” he said with a laugh. “I was out there celebrating with all of Stagecoach that Stagecoach was back! I was on my own rage-coach program that day.”
When he returns to the desert in 2023, he’ll be bringing new music. His latest album, “Mr. Saturday Night,” dropped earlier this month and he’s hoping the fans will know all of the songs by the time the festival rolls around again.
“I think there’s a lot of great stuff on this record that fans are going to really enjoy,” he said.
Restaurateur and TV host Guy Fieri will also be back to curate the ever-expanding Stagecoach Smokehouse. Fieri brings together chefs and pit bosses from all over the country to cook onsite. He hosts demos and conversations with the chefs and offers the fans that pack into the Smokehouse samples of their barbecue including chicken wings, pulled pork, beef ribs and burnt ends.
“(Next) year it will just get into another level of trying to make the Stagecoach Smokehouse its own entity,” Fieri said during a recent phone interview. “Everybody’s got their stages that they like to go to. But in the meantime, right over there where everybody’s going to eat, drink and sometimes get out of the sun, why not take that to the next level and entertain people?”
Fieri also invites over some of the musicians — even past festival headliners like Luke Combs — to barbecue in front of the crowd with him.
“We started this thing in the last couple of years, bringing in the artists,” he said. “And they’ve all got a favorite, something they love, something they used to eat when they were kids, something they always wanted to learn how to make.”
No word yet on who will join Fieri next year, but Pardi said he wants in.
“Man, Guy is awesome,” Pardi said. “I just met him at Stagecoach last year. I would definitely do some barbecue with him; he’s a good dude.”
Singer-songwriter Nikki Lane will bring back her Stage Stop Marketplace and Horseshoe Stage to the event and producer, songwriter and DJ Diplo will step in to curate the Honky Tonk Dance Hall. For the second consecutive year, California’s own Compton Cowboys will be back with their horses to share their stories and show off their skills.
Three-day general admission passes are $389; three-day Saloon passes are $799; Corral Reserved Seating is $829-$1,999; three-day Corral Reserved Standing Pit is $1,499; RV camping is $620-$1,620; Car camping is $244; Lake Eldorado camping is $679-$899; preferred parking is $99 and any-line shuttle passes are $70. All passes will be available at stagecoachfestival.com.
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