The gates have opened at the eighth annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival and people are filing in and checking out the food, vendors and projects.
Event organizers Paul Tollett and Bill Fold have been riding around the massive grounds on a golf cart, surveying the scene.
This year, the festival has doubled its art component. There are more than 30 large scale sculptures on the grounds and it’s not uncommon to see people climb atop a pair of rocking horses made of old tires, retread and rebar.
Another piece already attracting attention is an installation with more than a dozen streetlights implanted in the ground. Pressing a button on one of the lightpoles makes creepy pipe organ music that sounds like something out of an old horror movie.
At least we know Dracula won’t be out here in the blazing sun.
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Opening day
The line to get into this year’s Coachella Music and Arts Festival is already hundreds of people long.
On the 10 cars are whizzing by with signs such as “Coachella or Bust.”
The smell of sunscreen is everywhere as festivalgoers chug bottles of water before entering the gates to music heaven.
This is the first time the event has stretched to three days and the first time the concerts started on a Friday.