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Event Information:
The
Coachella Valley Music and Arts
Festival (commonly known as
Coachella or Coachella Festival) is
a three-day (formerly a one or
two-day) annual music and arts
festival, organized by Goldenvoice
(a subsidiary of AEG Live) and held
at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio,
California, in the Inland Empire's
Coachella Valley. The event features
many genres of music including
alternative rock, indie, and
electronic music as well as large
sculptural art. The event has
several stages/tents set-up
throughout the grounds, each playing
live music continuously. The main
stages are: Coachella Stage, Outdoor
Theatre, Gobi Tent, Mojave Tent, and
the Sahara Tent (2006 also saw the
addition of a smaller Oasis Dome).
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The
Coachella Music Festival has a
desert setting (the city of Indio is
a part of the California Desert),
with daytime temperatures frequently
rising to over 100 °F (38 °C). The
festival enjoys little cloud cover
or shade. The temperature drops
drastically after sunset. The
Coachella festival tries to reduce
its carbon footprint on the
environment every year which
involves not just employees but also
attendees. The festival highly
promotes carpooling for its
attendees which include rewards for
people who participate. For
attendees who choose to carpool with
four or more people in one car and
have the word "carpoolchella"
displayed somewhere on their car
they have a chance to be selected by
a secret spotter for a chance to win
VIP tickets/pass for Life for
everyone in the car. In 2007
Coachella teamed up with Global
Inheritance to start a 10 for 1
recycling program, in which anyone
who brings ten empty water bottles
will be given a fresh new water
bottle for free. In 2009 the
festival introduced refillable water
bottles for attendees to purchase
for ten dollars in which purchasers
would get free refills at a number
of refill stations inside the
festival and within the campgrounds.
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