Category Archives: Music

STAGECOACH 2013: Jeff Bridges lights up the crowd

Jeff Bridges at the 2013 Stagecoach Country Music Festival. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)

Jeff Bridges at the 2013 Stagecoach Country Music Festival. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)

Before Jeff Bridges took the stage with the Abiders at the opening day of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival, a guy behind me in the crowd just kept going “Where’s the Duuuuude?,” referencing Bridges’ famed slacker leading man in cult classic “The Big Lebowski.”
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STAGECOACH 2013: Shops provide the necessities

When attending the Stagecoach Country Music Festival, you don’t have to worry about forgotten items.

Don’t have a hat, buy one of the Cowboy variety at the General Store.

Need a pair of custom boots, they have them.

What about your favorite bikini? Not to fear, for this festival has several shops selling the female outfit of choice.
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STAGECOACH 2013: Roger McGuinn’s history lesson

Roger McGuinn performs at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival on Friday, April 26. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)

Roger McGuinn performs at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival on Friday, April 26. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)

With the Byrds, McGuinn merged folk and rock into a California sound.

He told the story of buying his first 12-string guitar and how he had to learn a Leadbelly song because Leadbelly inspired Pete Seeger, who inspired so many others.
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STAGECOACH 2013: An afternoon with Hayes Carll

Hayes Carll says he never gets to play gigs as cool as Stagecoach, that he’s normally in a place with a mechanical sheep.

The singer had a full band and played a Friday afternoon set before some Hayes Carll super fans in the audience.

Among my favorites in his set were “Drunken Poet’s Dream” and “Bad Liver and a Broken Heart.”
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STAGECOACH 2013: Follow live coverage

Rachel Swintek, left, of Anaheim Hills, helps Paul Krumenacker, 40, a marine from San Diego, with a selection of hats during the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio on Saturday, April 28, 2012. (File Photo)

Rachel Swintek, left, of Anaheim Hills, helps Paul Krumenacker, 40, a marine from San Diego, with a selection of hats during the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio on Saturday, April 28, 2012. (File Photo)

We are out covering the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. Follow along with the #PEStagecoach hashtag on Twitter and Instagram. If you want to send us photos, musings and more, we’ll give you some love here in the Audio File blog. Just use the hashtag!
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STAGECOACH 2013: Toyota’s World of Wonders

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The Gobi tent from Coachella has been transformed into Toyota’s World of Wonders for the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

The World of Wonders is a circus/carnivals themed tent, and is filled with games, crafts and giveaways.

Classic milk bottle and ring toss games are towards the back of the tent, a pseudo claw machine made from a Camry, and at the front right is a circus photo op.
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