The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival: a festival that brings Indio its biggest tourist attraction of 99,000 fans to see 184 artists in three days.
The venue’s doors opened at 11 a.m. each day with the earliest performers hitting the stage at that time and the latest coming out at 12:05 a.m.
The fans shared six main stages that spread through and completely transformed the Empire Polo Club into a music lover’s dream. Where else would a music lover go from Julian Casablancas’ rock to GTA’s electronic dance music in a span of five minutes?
Along with the six stages: Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Gobi, Mojave, Sahara and Yuma, the festival is home to the colorful The Do Lab and the DJ spinnin’ Heineken House.
The activities started from the time the doors opened. Activities hosted during the day were the Samsung Galaxy Experience, H&M Loves Music, Heineken Cold Storage, and The Terrace where you could a variety of food choices from Thai to Mediterranean to Baja style fish tacos.
The two-weekend headliners were Outkast, Muse and Arcade Fire. The crowd anticipated the return of Outkast, Queens of the Stone Age, and second show of The Replacements (with Billie Joe Armstrong!). Other acts that called attention from the stage to the food trucks were Arcade Fire, Calvin Harris, Lorde, and Pharrell Williams.
Notable and curious mentions that were spotted: Outkast’s performance where there was a sign language translating for the crowd, Martin Garrix rushing to see Ellie Goulding’s set, Carnage at Zedd’s set, the amazing visuals of Zedd and Dillon Francis, Martin Garrix dropping a Nirvana track, Dillon Francis joining Garrix for their “Set Me Free” collaboration, Julian Casablancas in the audience of Skrillex, Beyonce, Jay-Z and Outkast checking out Skrillex’s set, and Andre 3000 in the Disclosure pit area.
Coachella is truly the indicated place where fans and artists are one. They are all there for the same reason: to hear good music and to dance.
Photos below by Jeanette Hernandez.
Coachella Day One: HAIM, Ellie Goulding, The Glitch Mob, Zedd and Outkast.
Coachella Day Two: Cage the Elephant, Banks, Carbon Airways, Julian Casablancas, Dillon Francis, Lorde, RL Grime, Empire of the Sun and Skrillex.
Coachella Day Three: AlunaGeorge, Little Dragon, Lana Del Rey, Disclosure, Jhene Aiko and Lucent Dossier Experience.
See our exclusive interview with ZOÈ and photos of their performance at the Coachella main stage here
