Chaos at Stagecoach as stars and festivalgoers forced to flee
New York Post • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Severe weather prompted an emergency evacuation at the Stagecoach country music festival on Saturday night, forcing thousands of attendees to leave the venue.
- Festival organizers displayed a message onstage and sent alerts via the event’s mobile app, instructing the crowd to exit quickly and calmly and move their vehicles outside the site.
- Videos from concertgoers showed large crowds heading toward exits during the evacuation.
- By around 9 p.m., organizers announced the show would resume shortly and preparations were underway to reopen the festival.
- The annual event, held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, featured performances by artists including Post Malone, Riley Green, Lainey Wilson, and Cody Johnson.
