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lchaput
07-18-2008, 11:25 AM
Does anyone know when they announce the 2009 dates? I am from Canada and really want to start making plans to attend next year.
Does anyone know when they announce the 2009 dates? I am from Canada and really want to start making plans to attend next year.
Welcome Ichaput!!!
Stagecoach will be the first weekend in May. It follows the Coachella festival. Now the big debate: will it be 2 days like the first year or 3 days like this year???
Kymery
07-18-2008, 11:41 AM
Well, it will probably be in November when the tickets go on sale, but it is always that first weekend in May, and always the weekend that follows Coachella festival since it is all ready set up.
2007 was 5/5 - 5/6
2008 was 5/2 - 5/4
Kymery
07-18-2008, 11:41 AM
ehhehe Rose..great minds on top of things!!
Oh..also welcome ichaput (what does that mean??)
ehhehe Rose..great minds on top of things!!
Oh..also welcome ichaput (what does that mean??)
THANKS!!
lchaput
07-18-2008, 05:43 PM
Are you kidding me?? there are those two festivals within 2 weeks? I just looked up the Coachella one too, it looks amazing too! ... Now I will have to change my plans to be able to come down and stay for both festivals.
Thanks for the info
Kymery
07-18-2008, 05:47 PM
Are you kidding me?? there are those two festivals within 2 weeks? I just looked up the Coachella one too, it looks amazing too! ... Now I will have to change my plans to be able to come down and stay for both festivals.
Thanks for the info
Wow...you're a trooper! I barely made it thru Stagecoach!! heehehe
socalcountrygrl
07-18-2008, 08:00 PM
BOTH FESTIVALS?!? Thats A Lot Of Red Cups :) he he he
Kymery
07-19-2008, 06:51 AM
Two days
You know something we don't?:cool:
2 days really?? darnit. i was hopin they'd go for 4 next year!!! the more stagecoach, the better!
A VERY LOW level guy like myself is not in on the planning for the event
lchaput
07-19-2008, 06:31 PM
geez... now I am still confused about the dates... we are going to rent and RV and now will wonder if the festival is 2 or 3 days. Oh well, either way I guess we will rent it from Thursday night to Monday morning.
Can anyone recommend a RV rental place?
Kymery
07-21-2008, 09:11 AM
Try here.:
http://www.cruiseamerica.com/rent/hot_deals/
horsephotographer
07-21-2008, 02:44 PM
geez... now I am still confused about the dates... we are going to rent and RV and now will wonder if the festival is 2 or 3 days. Oh well, either way I guess we will rent it from Thursday night to Monday morning.
Can anyone recommend a RV rental place?
Either way..
You would want to plan three days and come for the pre party...
Welcome Ichaaput....
I also heard last week that Coachella was amazing.I might do both this year also....:cool:
lchaput
07-21-2008, 05:37 PM
sounds good. When do people arrive - on the Thursday night before the weekend? can you leave on Monday morning?
Kymery
07-21-2008, 06:19 PM
Heck yes...we got there on Thurs eve and stayed till noon on monday...relax..enjoy! They are great about.
horsephotographer
07-21-2008, 09:27 PM
sounds good. When do people arrive - on the Thursday night before the weekend? can you leave on Monday morning?
Yes.... Many come in for the week and enjoy the hotels and great entertainment and dining this area of the desert has to offer.
Lots to do and more then just kicking around the grounds in the sand.
Hope you try and come out for both .:)
Todays paper has a story about Stagecoach
Sat and Sun only the dates are not finalized
expect more Country-Rock in 2009
horsephotographer
08-29-2008, 08:21 AM
Todays paper has a story about Stagecoach
Sat and Sun only the dates are not finalized
expect more Country-Rock in 2009
Yes....
Also heard this confirmation on the radio this morning on KPALM ......
Ummmmm Is this going to be the same as last year..???
Wonder if going this way till the surprise of a third day made lots more money and kept the excitement going , and that it may just happen again this year?
Stay tuned only time will tell....As the stagecoach turns..lol:D
honkytonkangel
08-29-2008, 09:34 AM
Todays paper has a story about Stagecoach
Sat and Sun only the dates are not finalized
expect more Country-Rock in 2009
I'll take country-rock over country-pop any day....:cool:
Cooter
08-29-2008, 10:35 AM
"Stagecoach to return to two-day schedule
By Bruce Fessier • August 28, 2008
The Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio will return to being a two-day festival in 2009 after breaking attendance records over three days in May.
Stagecoach founder Paul Tollett of the Los Angeles-based Goldenvoice promoters said the reduction in size of what was becoming one of the most significant country music festivals in the nation had nothing to do with the declining economy.
“It’s a two-day festival,” Tollett said. “Last year The Eagles popped up, so that was just an anomaly. California’s coolest band pops up and you grab it.”
Dates for the third annual festival haven’t been announced, but it’s traditionally held around the first weekend in May, one week after the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.
Stagecoach added to its unique diversity last year when Goldenvoice built a whole roots-rock day around The Eagles with John Fogerty, Glen Campbell, Shelby Lynne and Mike Ness.
Tollett said there will be more country rock in 2009.
“It’s going to be kind of similar, just over the two days,” he said.
He’s now “knee deep” in booking bands for both Stagecoach and Coachella, he said after staging the All Points West festival in New Jersey this month with Radiohead as a headliner.
Goldenvoice has been asking for feedback from newsletter subscribers on last year’s Stagecoach. Tollett is seeking a major headliner for Coachella, but not because he’s planning a big 10th anniversary event.
“I’m not an anniversary/birthday kind of guy,” he said. “I just want a great show. But, I’m very pro-Coachella, so I want to come up with a nice lineup.”
Thanks Thom and Kymery for all the great info!!!
horsephotographer
08-30-2008, 11:32 AM
It should be great no matter what they plan....:D
Going the weekend before Coachella would be GREAT
Going the weekend before Coachella would be GREAT
I would have to agree. But I like to think that they work out all the kinks at Coachella... and then we have a smoothe running operation by SC. ;)
If you had to work with the folks that do both events
BURN OUT is what we get at SC Coachella is a huge show
and the kids are rude with the workers So it takes a day
of being nice with them to get em to relax and enjoy the festival
Besides better odds of cooler weather mid April vs. early May
you mean coachella people aren't as nice as stagecoach people?? :eek: ;)
Cooter
09-01-2008, 12:51 PM
i attend both every year and both festivals have their share of douchebags.
Kymery
09-01-2008, 05:36 PM
If you had to work with the folks that do both events
BURN OUT is what we get at SC Coachella is a huge show
and the kids are rude with the workers So it takes a day
of being nice with them to get em to relax and enjoy the festival
Besides better odds of cooler weather mid April vs. early May
As I was reading this post,, and before I saw this one...this exactly went through my mind. They are tired and irritated that they have to put up with a bunch of partying in people...no matter what venue comes first...the 2nd ones get the "last nerves" of the employees. I do my best to thank all of them (well not the guys who couldn't park all our RV's properly) but I did make sure I let them know I appreciated all their work. One smile and a thank you goes a long way.
I do agree, I would like it before Coachella.
Cooter
09-01-2008, 06:29 PM
oh hell no, i need the nice green grass for coachella since it's where i spend more time!
a little bit before doors on the first day last year...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/forgotaboutsteve/IMG_1967.jpg
by stagecoach it was nice and dead and brown. no way. ;)
Coot I was by there yesterday the grass at Empire Polo was very nice
Maybe you could go now and really enjoy it :) just teasin ya
I have a really hard time believing either of you that their is actual grass on the polo grounds. :rolleyes:
Countrygurl
09-02-2008, 08:49 AM
I think the picture is pretty clear there is grass. :)
Nowadays you can "create/modify" any picture you want to. :eek:
schradog
09-02-2008, 09:58 AM
Give Cooter some credit, either way you see fit, for being computer savvy or just for a good photo.
No its as green as can be right now in Summer
horsephotographer
09-03-2008, 08:51 AM
I have a really hard time believing either of you that their is actual grass on the polo grounds. :rolleyes:
I pass it 2x a day....
It is very green.......
So is the lot where they all were camping and full of horses...
It is Bermuda grass and only thrives in heat...
October is the time for allergies and scraping to plant rye grass....
Rose you know I would never lie to you my dear friend...
Should I shoot a photo for ya this afternoon of the old camping site full of horses it would be a hoot for ya all to see.....
:D
horsephotographer
09-03-2008, 08:54 AM
If you had to work with the folks that do both events
BURN OUT is what we get at SC Coachella is a huge show
and the kids are rude with the workers So it takes a day
of being nice with them to get em to relax and enjoy the festival
Besides better odds of cooler weather mid April vs. early May
Have to say you are right on this one....
It was such fun meeting all of them that work there tails off for weeks before the evnts.....
April is so much nicer weather just like paradise....
So many other events going on all over the desert from January to may it is crazy to keep it all straight....
horsephotographer
09-03-2008, 08:56 AM
you mean coachella people aren't as nice as stagecoach people?? :eek: ;)
No way.....
Say it is not so....
I met lots of nice people before Coachella and now I'm changing a client around to shoot it also....:confused:
schradog
09-09-2008, 01:54 PM
I pass it 2x a day....
It is very green.......
So is the lot where they all were camping and full of horses...
It is Bermuda grass and only thrives in heat...
October is the time for allergies and scraping to plant rye grass....
Rose you know I would never lie to you my dear friend...
Should I shoot a photo for ya this afternoon of the old camping site full of horses it would be a hoot for ya all to see.....
:D
Please do shoot a photo, would love to see how the grounds look with out all us honkey's!!!! :p
horsephotographer
09-09-2008, 03:11 PM
Please do shoot a photo, would love to see how the grounds look with out all us honkey's!!!! :p
OK you got it....
Just for you scchradog.....
Tack room is back to 7 days a week it is now officially season.......
Love the cool down.
I'll shoot tomorrow and let ya see ..:D
I was out there today
It is so wide open and green
horsephotographer
09-09-2008, 09:01 PM
I was out there today
It is so wide open and green
Hey did I pass you?
I was also at the tackroom for dinner tonight and saw the new band list till december every friday night rocknroll at 9pm.....
I have had lunch at the Tack Room a few times
We did a BBQ Class at the Tack Room
Kathi
10-01-2008, 02:56 PM
April 25th - 26th 2009 - see Chris Cagle's website
Welcome Kathi...
Thanks for the info!!!
festivalfan
10-02-2008, 07:32 AM
so it's "official" - SC 09 will be in April? wonder when there will be an official announcment from Goldenvoice...?
schradog
10-03-2008, 09:23 AM
Thanks Chris, you are the new informant!! Start getting the Red Cups ready and everything else!!!
horsephotographer
10-03-2008, 08:01 PM
Thank goodness....
Finally it might get back to some real fun in here......:)
schradog
10-05-2008, 06:19 PM
Ok it is officially up on the website, the dates are April 25th & 26th! Yeah baby, time to get in drinking shape!!!
Yeeeeeeeeehhaaaaawww! Got my email! i love the official announcements. makes things SO exciting.
GoCountryGal
10-05-2008, 07:14 PM
weeeeeeeeeee got mine too!! cant waittttt