HISTORY OF STAGECOACH
The Stagecoach Festival is an outdoor country music festival presented by Golden voice, The
Messina
Group, and Moore Entertainment and founded by Paul Tollett. The festival is held at the Empire Polo Club
in Indio, California. Various artists attend, whether they be mainstream or relatively unknown, ranging
from folk, mainstream country, bluegrass, roots rock, and alternative country. It is the
highest-grossing festival centered on country music in the world. The festival acts as a sister event to
Golden voice’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, taking place the following weekend at the same
site.
Stagecoach took place for the first time in 2007. Put on at the same venue, also by Goldenvoice,
Stagecoach is seen as a "cousin" of Coachella. In 2012, the festival's 55,000 attendees marked its first
sell-out crowd. In 2018, Stagecoach set a new attendance record with 75,000 attendees.