DIGITAL JOURNALIST
Toby Keith at Stagecoach 2013 (Charlotte Bray/Freelance Photographer)
Did you see Toby Keith headline night one of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival?
Check out our photos from the show.
Want more Stagecoach goodness? Check out all of our photos from Stagecoach 2013 and get more updates at the iGuide’s Stagecoach site.
Jeff Bridges at the 2013 Stagecoach Country Music Festival. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
Before Jeff Bridges took the stage with the Abiders at the opening day of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival, a guy behind me in the crowd just kept going “Where’s the Duuuuude?,” referencing Bridges’ famed slacker leading man in cult classic “The Big Lebowski.”
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Stagecoach 2012 (File Photo)
We are out covering the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. Follow along with the #PEStagecoach hashtag on Twitter and Instagram. If you want to send us photos, musings and more, we’ll give you some love here in the Audio File blog. Just use the hashtag!
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Roger McGuinn performs at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival on Friday, April 26. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
With the Byrds, McGuinn merged folk and rock into a California sound.
He told the story of buying his first 12-string guitar and how he had to learn a Leadbelly song because Leadbelly inspired Pete Seeger, who inspired so many others.
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Stagecoach 2012 (File Photo)
We are out covering the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. Follow along with the #PEStagecoach hashtag on Twitter and Instagram. If you want to send us photos, musings and more, we’ll give you some love here in the Audio File blog. Just use the hashtag!
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Hayes Carll says he never gets to play gigs as cool as Stagecoach, that he’s normally in a place with a mechanical sheep.
The singer had a full band and played a Friday afternoon set before some Hayes Carll super fans in the audience.
Among my favorites in his set were “Drunken Poet’s Dream” and “Bad Liver and a Broken Heart.”
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Rachel Swintek, left, of Anaheim Hills, helps Paul Krumenacker, 40, a marine from San Diego, with a selection of hats during the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio on Saturday, April 28, 2012. (File Photo)
We are out covering the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. Follow along with the #PEStagecoach hashtag on Twitter and Instagram. If you want to send us photos, musings and more, we’ll give you some love here in the Audio File blog. Just use the hashtag!
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The Gobi tent from Coachella has been transformed into Toyota’s World of Wonders for the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.
The World of Wonders is a circus/carnivals themed tent, and is filled with games, crafts and giveaways.
Classic milk bottle and ring toss games are towards the back of the tent, a pseudo claw machine made from a Camry, and at the front right is a circus photo op.
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Fences at Stagecoach Festival (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
There are a number of differences between the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival as soon as you step into the grounds at the Empire Polo Club.
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The Little Willies’ Stagecoach 2013 set will be aired on AXS TV. (AP Photo)
For the first time in its seven years of being a festival, the Stagecoach Country Music Festival will be aired on TV.
Performances, interviews and more will be broadcast on AXS TV all weekend long.
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