NASHVILLE |DATE: January 20, 2005
COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL 2005
SET FOR SATURDAY, APRIL 30 AND SUNDAY, MAY 1
Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1 are the confirmed dates for this year’s COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL. Known for its adventurous mix of iconic headliners and wide-ranging, forward-looking performers, the festival has been described by Robert Hilburn of the LOS ANGELES TIMES as “…the Kentucky Derby of rock” and “…the most significant annual pop event in the country,” with Jon Pareles of the New York Times noting last year, “If outbreaks of promising collegiate rock were on a map, this year's festival would have a pin in most of them.” This marks the sixth celebration of the critically acclaimed event at the breathtakingly beautiful and peaceful Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA.
Set on more than 78 acres amid towering palm trees and mountainous views of the Palm Desert area and featuring close to 80 acts spread out over four stages, the COACHELLA festival is, according to BILLBOARD, “…America's premiere music destination” and is hailed as “The Best American Festival” (Rolling Stone) and “probably the best festival in the world” (England’s NME).
Here are some media quotes on last year’s event, which included performances from Radiohead and The Cure, marked the reunion of The Pixies and the return of Kraftwerk :
“…One of the world’s premier music festivals.”
—LA Weekly (5/05/04)
“Reaching critical mass…2004’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival thrilled the crowds with a line-up of the old, the new and the recently re-formed.”
–Cheryl Chang, URB (August ’04)
“For the most part Saturday's event was a model of thoughtful planning and creative booking. Large-scale art installations were scattered about the vast grounds, which sported two outdoor and three tented performance stages and a constant loop of screenings in the Coachella Independent Film Festival tent. Good food was plentiful, covered palapas provided escape from the sun, and if Kinky's exuberant Mexican tech-rock or Sweden's raucous and tragically leather-clad (International) Noise Conspiracy didn't get your blood flowing, there was the Bike Rodeo, a miniature amusement park filled with an odd assortment of pedal-powered rides.”
–Joan Anderman, Boston Globe, 5/3/04
Information on performers and ticket on sales will be available next week. For up-to-the-minute updates, go to www.coachella.com
Contacts:
MSO: 818-380-0400
Marcee Rondan marcee@msopr.com ext. 248
Kristine Ashton-Magnuson kashton@msopr.com ext. 233
Alexandra Greenberg agreenberg@msopr.com ext. 223
Mitch Schneider mschneider@msopr.com ext. 235
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