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California Music Festival, STAGECOACH, Hits Big

Posted by Laura Travis on 05/06/2009
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The annual Country Music festival in Indio, Calif., STAGECOACH, drew a crowd of more than 100,000 fans this year. This is the third year that the festival has taken place, and headliners for the event included Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, Kid Rock and Reba McEntire. 

The event was held on Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26. For each of these days, more than 50,000 people were there to watch the Country acts. Also breaking a record for the festival was the ammount of camps set up onsite. They had more than 3,000 tents and 2,500 RVs this year.

Brad Paisley praised the music festival as “the greatest festival in the history of music.” Meanwhile, Waddie Mitchell, cowboy storyteller, also said, "I'm not sure if it's not the best [festival] I've ever been to as far as being organized as treating the artists well.”