Cameron Powell
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If Coachella is America’s annual capital for pop music, perhaps Stagecoach will one day have the same level of prestige and influence for the country genre. Presented annually and running this year in California from April 24-26, the three-day festival comes from the creative minds behind Coachella, like a dusty counterprogramming to the glossy pop hits of its contemporary.
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The official lineup has just been announced for the festival’s eighteenth year, and as expected, given the genre, Texans are all over it. Day one on Friday, April 24, will be headlined by far east Texas native, Cody Johnson, who was born in Sebastopol, about two and a half hours from Dallas. Also joining him on Friday is the duo behind what might be the Dallas song of the summer, Bailey Zimmerman and our hometown rapper BigXThaPlug. Houston native Lyle Lovatt is also on the bill, next to Red Clay Strays.
Lainey Wilson, Riley Green and Journey will headline Saturday’s lineup. Willow Avalon, who is performing at the State Fair of Texas this Thursday, and S.G. Goodman, fresh off a performance at the Kessler Theater, is also on the bill.
On Sunday, Grapevine’s own Post Malone headlines an older lineup that includes Hootie and the Blowfish, Third Eye Blind and the Wallflowers.
The lineup includes major artists like Diplo, Pitbull and Ludacris.
Suffice to say, when you throw a country music festival in California, you can expect a great deal of Texans to be coming your way. We know that by the lineup alone, but if you’d also like to make the drive out or fly to the California desert, tickets go on sale this Thursday, Oct. 2.
