* Coachella 2019 *

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.

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. There are also many fun places to explore and enjoy in-between stages, food stands and drinking areas. One of them, first time present this year was CK with #mycalvins 70's house, where we enjoyed just hanging out and bubbling up.

Year after year, 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. This year some art pieces were repeated from the last or previous years, either in original form or with a twist.. Personally i would have preferred if everything was new, but there was a good reason for it. The festival was celebrating 20 years this year so idea behind mix of an old and new art installations was to embrace both: festival past and future. Here you can check them out with all details Art of 2019 

This year I had two favourites, one of the returning ones: Overview Effect from Poetic Kinetics and new one: Mismo from Sophia Enriquez. Sophia is locally based painter aka Mucho who brought field of colourful three-dimensional paisley murals made from painted wood. This art collection was so positive and happy that every time i looked at it or walked through it my mood improved. Here are some of my personal snippets (first two photos)

All above mentioned is one of the reasons why Coachella is still one of my favourite festivals, that I keep on coming back to. 

Most important reason though, 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, day three part 1 and  day three part 2 and..

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Tune in tonight (20.05.209) to Gimme A Beat to hear all about my experience at Coachella 2019, chosen songs of female artists that I saw and enjoyed 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 (check out also my favourite interview here)

Tune in for ..

Coachella 2019 with *playlist to be added*

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

featuring:
gimmeabeat at coachella

Kisses,
Babymonster
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