Post Malone, Lainey Wilson and Cody Johnson will headline the annual Stagecoach festival on April 24-26 at Empire Polo Club in Indio, Ca., as part of a wildly diverse lineup that moves ever farther from the event’s country roots.
Although genre mainstays such as Bailey Zimmerman, Brooks & Dunn, Riley Green, Lyle Lovett, Wynonna Judd, Little Big Town and Red Clay Strays will be in attendance, Stagecoach will also play host to borderline head-scratchers such as Journey, Pitbull, rappers BigXthaPlug and Ludacris, Third Eye Blind, the Wallflowers and Counting Crows.
In addition, Diplo will return for the sixth year of his Diplo’s HonkTonk, and chef Guy Fieri will reprise his Stagecoach Smokehouse with BBQ tastings and cooking demos. Tickets go on sale Oct. 2 for the fest, which sold out in advance in 2025 and takes place at the same venue that hosts the Coachella festival the prior two April weekends. Amazon Music is back as the livestream partner.
“My first Stagecoach was in 2022 on the SiriusXM Stage at 2:30PM in the afternoon,” recalls Wilson. “Look how far we’ve come, y’all! I’m honored to headline this year. This is a career highlight and I can’t wait to see everyone there.” Adds Johnson, “I’ll never forget the first time I got the call to play Stagecoach. We were on one of the smaller stages and I remember wondering if anyone would even know our songs. Now, here we are invited back to headline the Mane Stage. What a ride. I hope y’all bring the energy, because it’s gonna get western.”
Meanwhile, the winner of the CBS competition show The Road, which premieres Oct. 19, will perform on the Mane Stage and take home a $250,000 prize.
