[Update: At of 8:42 p.m., the festival advised via its mobile app that Stagecoach will resume momentarily. \u201cWe are working to open doors and prep the site for your safety,\u201d the alert said. Just before 9p.m. the gates were reopened.<\/p>\n
Stagecoach updated its schedule for Saturday night after a temporary evacuation due to high winds. Journey, which had been scheduled to play the Mustang Stage, will no longer perform; Riley Green, set to play the Mane Stage will also not perform. Lainey Wilson, who was set to headline the Mane stage, will play an hour later than originally scheduled at 10:30 p.m.]<\/p>\n
Due to high winds at Stagecoach, the festival promoter Goldenvoice postponed the festival Saturday night until further notice and crowds are currently being evacuated. <\/p>\n
An \u201cEmergency Evacuation\u201d message showed up on screens on the festival\u2019s Mane Stage saying \u201cthe festival is been postponed until further notice. Please move quickly and calmly to the nearest exit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city of Indio where the fest is located is under a strong wind advisory until 11 a.m. Sunday morning. The advisory issued by the National Weather Service was in effect at 2 p.m. but the gusts didn\u2019t pick up until Teddy swims\u2019 Mane Stage set just after 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
Thousands of people poured out of the festival. Despite there being messaging on the screen to evacuate, some emergency exits were still closed by security staff between the main stage and the main entrance. In addition to messaging on screens, the Stagecoach app sent an alert for people to evacuate.<\/p>\n
Fans at the festival reported that the winds earlier were much stronger than the evening gusts that resulted in the spontaneous postponement. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe show was pretty windy when we got there but we went into a saloon to see one of our friends do karaoke,\u201d said Krystine Malins, 58. \u201cWhen we came out palm trees were like bending in half.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malins, who has attended the festival since the first installment in 2007, said an evacuation was \u201cthe best call.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI just feel bad for these girls walking around half-naked in this wind,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Two Stagecoach festival attendees, Ellie, 27, and Angelique, 22, sat at tables farther back from the stage watching people filing out of the festival. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were trying to see Pitbull at the end of the night, so that\u2019s kind of like our whole night, I don\u2019t know, ruined I guess,\u201d Angelique said. \u201cWe were kind of hoping for a refund.\u201d Asked about whether the wind felt seriousness enough to stop the show, the pair were cautiously optimistic. \u201cHonestly I would say yeah [it\u2019s bad], but I feel like there could still be potential for it to go down, but it felt worse earlier,\u201d Angelique said. <\/p>\n
Despite the evacuation, the general atmosphere among many festival goers was calm as crowds were walking back to their cars. <\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t even know what was going on until I saw the screen [at the Mane Stage] and then I started hearing \u201cHey they\u2019re evacuating, get out,\u201d one festival goer told the Times. \u201cBut then we had to sit it out because there was a clog at the exit. It\u2019s not that bad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Update: At of 8:42 p.m., the festival advised via its mobile app that Stagecoach will resume momentarily. \u201cWe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[15456,88,29603,32353,263792,263791,30028,43341,235549,4281,24030,22215,3590,6312,263790,92467],"class_list":{"0":"post-606977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-crowd","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fan","11":"tag-festival","12":"tag-festival-promoter-goldenvoice","13":"tag-festival-saturday-night","14":"tag-further-notice","15":"tag-havoc","16":"tag-high-wind","17":"tag-los-angeles-times","18":"tag-national-weather-service","19":"tag-p-m","20":"tag-people","21":"tag-screen","22":"tag-stagecoach","23":"tag-strong-wind"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}