High winds prompt temporary evacuation at Stagecoach Festival

Lainey Wilson

Stagecoach was briefly evacuated Saturday night (April 25) after the Empire Polo Club in Indio was hit with high winds.

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The country music festival, this year headlined by Post Malone, Lainey Wilson and Cody Johnson, updated its schedule for Saturday night after a temporary evacuation due to high winds.

According to a report from Rolling Stone, the gusts grew to such a point that food vendors were forced to shut up shop early, until the festival itself was paused and performers were ushered offstage.

An emergency evacuation message showed up on screens on the festival’s Mane Stage yesterday, and read: “The festival has been postponed until further notice. Please move quickly and calmly to the nearest exit.”

However, about an hour after thousands had shuffled toward the parking lot and shuttles, the festival sent out a notification that it would be resuming, with headliner Wilson‘s set pushed back an hour to 10.30 pm.

“We’re back in the saddle,” the new update read, advising that the festival would go until 1am instead of the originally planned 11.55pm.