Coachella sets 2016 dates and tickets

June 3, 2015 9:44 AM PT

It’s been barely six weeks since the sold-out Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival concluded its 2015 edition with headlining sets by AC/DC, Jack White and Drake, but it’s already time to start planning for next year.

The 2016 Coachella festival will be held April 15-17 and April 22-24 at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio. Advance ticket sales will begin Thursday at 11 a.m. on the festival website. Since Stagecoach, the annual country music festival held at the same site, takes place the weekend after Coachella concludes, it appears next year’s edition of Stagecoach will be held May 1-3.

This will be the only time an advance ticket plan (once quaintly referred to as a “layaway plan”) will be offered for Coachella 2016. To expedite ticket purchases, it is recommended to create an advance account before the on-sale begins Thursday. Separate accounts are required for Weekend One and Weekend Two.

General admission passes for each three-day weekend of the festival are priced at $375 each. VIP passes are priced at $899. VIP parking passes will cost $199 each. Car and tent camping are each priced at $99.

Camping options range from $2350 per weekend for a two-person Lake Eldorado Tee Pee, which includes two General Admission passes, to $7,000 for a two-person, air-conditioned Safari Tent, which includes two VIP passes. No advance payment plan is available for the Safari Tent Option.

As has been the case in recent years, performers for the upcoming Coachella festival are not expected to be announced until early January. But no matter, since both weekends of the event typically sell out in a near-instant.

This year’s Coachella lineup was headlined by AC/DC, Jack White and Drake. Attendance was close to 100,000 per day, with 20 percent of the audience coming (as in years past) from San Diego County, according to Goldenvoice, the festival’s promoter.

Read more at utsandiego.com.

Source: DiscoverSD

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George Varga

San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 San Diego Press Club awards and a first prize-winner at the 2022 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”

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