Zócalo Public SquareWhat’s So Great About Coachella? – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 What’s So Great About Coachella? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/04/11/whats-so-great-about-coachella/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/04/11/whats-so-great-about-coachella/ideas/up-for-discussion/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2015 07:02:58 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=59522 This weekend, tens of thousands—maybe even nearly 100,000—music fans are rocking out at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. With multiple stages going full-blast, festivalgoers will face difficult decisions such as: Should I catch the soulful roots-rockers Alabama Shakes or the haunting Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li? Should I skip the electro-pop duo Odesza to get a good spot to see the superstar hip-hopper Drake?

And music isn’t the only delight on offer: When fans get tired from dancing or being packed cheek-to-jowl in the crowd, they can eat up hot pots by Kogi food truck master Roy Choi, green gazpacho from Top Chef’s Marcel Vigneron, or boozy popsicles from the L.A. restaurant The Church Key. There also will be large, brightly colored sculptures to check out. If Coachella isn’t your bag, there is a festival somewhere in the country for every interest—classical music at the Spoleto USA Festival in Charleston, South Carolina; paintings that …

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]]> This weekend, tens of thousands—maybe even nearly 100,000—music fans are rocking out at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. With multiple stages going full-blast, festivalgoers will face difficult decisions such as: Should I catch the soulful roots-rockers Alabama Shakes or the haunting Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li? Should I skip the electro-pop duo Odesza to get a good spot to see the superstar hip-hopper Drake?

And music isn’t the only delight on offer: When fans get tired from dancing or being packed cheek-to-jowl in the crowd, they can eat up hot pots by Kogi food truck master Roy Choi, green gazpacho from Top Chef’s Marcel Vigneron, or boozy popsicles from the L.A. restaurant The Church Key. There also will be large, brightly colored sculptures to check out.

If Coachella isn’t your bag, there is a festival somewhere in the country for every interest—classical music at the Spoleto USA Festival in Charleston, South Carolina; paintings that come to life at the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, California; all the Bard you can consume at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, just to name a few. In advance of the Zócalo/James Irvine Foundation event “Do Arts and Music Festivals Matter?”, we asked a panel of experts: What does the popularity of music and arts festivals say about the ways Americans are experiencing art now?

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