The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonlycalled the Coachella Festival or simply Coachella) is an annual music and artsfestival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the CoachellaValley in the Colorado Desert. It was co-founded by Paul Tollett and Rick VanSanten in 1999, and is organized by Goldenvoice, a subsidiary of AEGPresents.[2] The event features musical artists from many genres of music, includingrock, pop, indie, hip hop and electronic dance music, as well as artinstallations and sculptures. Across the grounds, several stages continuouslyhost live music. 

The festival's origins trace back to a 1993 concert thatPearl Jam performed at the Empire Polo Club while boycotting venues controlledby Ticketmaster. The show validated the site's viability for hosting largeevents, leading to the inaugural Coachella Festival being held over the courseof two days in October 1999, three months after Woodstock '99. After no eventwas held in 2000, Coachella returned on an annual basis beginning in April 2001as a single-day event. In 2002, the festival reverted to a two-day format.Coachella was expanded to a third day in 2007 and eventually a second weekendin 2012; it is now held on consecutive three-day weekends in April, with thesame lineup each weekend.

Organizers began permitting spectators to camp on thegrounds in 2003, one of several expansions and additions in the festival'shistory. The festival was not held in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19pandemic.[3] Coachella showcases popular and established musical artistsas well as emerging artists and reunited groups. It is one of the largest, mostfamous, and most profitable music festivals in the United States and theworld.[4][5] Each Coachella staged from 2013 to 2015 set new records forfestival attendance and gross revenues. The 2017 festival was attended by250,000 people and grossed $114.6 million.

Coachella's success led toGoldenvoice establishing additional music festivals at the site, including theannual Stagecoach country music festival beginning in 2007, the Big 4 thrashmetal festival in 2011, and the classic rock-oriented Desert Trip in 2016.

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