* Coachella 2018 *

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly known as Coachella) is an annual three-day music and arts festival, founded by Paul Tollett, organized by Goldenvoice and held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley.

Due to popular demand, back in 2012, Coachella organisers "stretched" the festival over two weekends. Of course, first weekend is more popular then second, but let's be honest, the best would be to attend both weekend for full on, don't-wanna-miss-the-thing, experience.

After a break of one year, I returned to the Coachella festival grounds this year and for the first time, I attended weekend two. It was not easy to avoid all the reports from the weekend one, but it was totally worth it, especially considering Beyonce's already legendary Homecoming Tour performance, that was not streamed as the one on weekend one.

Going back to it's beginnings, first official Coachella festival happened in October 1999. Then, after the break of one year, to avoid intense heat during the summer, the festival moved from October to April. In following years Coachella became an event with impressive line-up and amazing atmosphere that attracted many people from all over the world. Nowadays the festival is happening not only over two weekends, but on several stages/tents set-up throughout the grounds, each playing live music continuously. The stages are: Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Gobi, Mojave and Sahara Tent, Yuma stage, Sonora Stage and DoLab.

Coachella is also showcasing some impressive art: installation art and sculptures, located all around festival. Every year it feels that arts get better and better. And it is very possible that it does, since apparently the amount of art that the team of the Coachella Valley Art Scene needs to choose from, increases every year. Here you can check Art of 2018.

This year my personal favourite one was Edoardo Tresoldi's Etherea. Eduardo is Italian artist that known for his monumental wire mesh sculptures that function as public interventions. He was named by Forbes as one of the 30 most influential European artists under 30. Etherea was not only looking georgious and impressive, but it also had crickets in lower areas. So every time I would come by and sat down it felt I was somewhere far away, but closer to home, at mediterenian. Here it as a part of my personal snippets.

There are several reasons why Coachella is still one of my favourite festivals, that I keep on coming back to. And yes, I missed it in 2017, but no regrets (after all Beyonce missed it as well), this only means that when I was back in 2018, I enjoyed it even more.

One very important reason, for the music lover that I am, is that no matter how hipster or mainstream it gets, Coachella never forgets to include bands I am excited about, introduces some new, awesome bands that I (could and usually) get excited about, seems to brings the best out of most of the artists that are performing and big part of the audience and continues to keep it's vibe in tune with what for me California is all about, chilled, sunny and fckng gorgeous.

Expect to hear about my desert festival extravaganza experience (maybe) again
next year. In the meantime, check out my daily reviews: day one, day two and day three and..

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Tune in tonight (20.08.2018) to Gimme A Beat to hear all about my experience at Coachella 2018, chosen songs of the female artists that I saw on the festival and many short interviews with friendly Coachella goers that were kind enough to step away for a moment from the festival fun and answer few of my questions..

Tune in for ..

Coachella 2018 with *playlist to be added*

from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora

featuring:
gimmeabeat at coachella

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