Coachella music festival postponed over coronavirus concerns
The Coachella music festival in Southern California has been postponed amid concerns over the coronavirus.
The festival is organized by concert promoter Goldenvoice, which released a statement Tuesday saying it will be rescheduled for two weekends in October.
Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean had been scheduled to headline the April festival, which attracts tens of thousands to the desert community of Indio, Calif., and the nearby cities of Palm Springs and Rancho Mirago.
The festival is held over two weekends and has a reputation for eye-popping performances, including Beyonce’s 2018 set that became the Netflix film Homecoming, and the 2012 debut of a «hologram» of late rapper Tupac Shakur. This year’s festival was set to reunite Rage Against the Machine — which performed at the first Coachella festival in 1999.
Goldenvoice also puts on the country music festival Stagecoach in Indio. This year’s Stagecoach will move from April 24-26 to Oct. 23-25. The festival’s headliners are Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and Eric Church.
California has 157 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and two people who were infected have died.
