City of Indio
PROFILE
Glenn Miller
Guest
FROM Glenn Miller
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Indio Welcomes World's Highest Grossing Music Festival It's sweaty. It's dusty. It's dirty. And it's awesome. It's the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival – known to most as just "Coachella" – which stages its 14th annual takeover of the small town of Indio this weekend. This year's headliners include Blur, the Stone Roses, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse and Nick Cave, among others. Eighty thousand festival-goers can now rest assured that it's not going anywhere anytime soon. The City of Indio has signed a deal with event promoter Goldenvoice to keep annual festival of music and optional hygiene in Coachella through 2030. We talk with a councilman in Indio and hear from a rock critic about why this event is important both here in California and to music aficionados around the world.
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Coachella Last year, all 75,000 three-day passes for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival sold out in less than a week. Instead of doubling the capacity of the venue — with all that would mean for traffic and over-crowding in Indio, festival co-founder Paul Tollett decided to hold two festivals on successive weekends.
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