Coachella 2026 begins its first week on Friday, April 10, and Cachirula & Loojan will open the run for one of the festival’s most watched audiences. The Mexican duo is scheduled to bring its reggaetón proposal to the Sonora stage at 8:25 p.m. ET.
The booking places Cachirula & Loojan in a weekend that spreads Latin and Spanish-language acts across several stages and time slots. On Saturday, Luísa Sonza is set for the Gobi stage at 5:10 p.m. ET, Morat at 10:10 p.m. ET on the same stage, and Los Hermanos Flores at 3:55 p.m. ET on the Outdoor Theatre stage. On Sunday, RØZ will perform on the Sonora stage at 6:40 p.m. ET, followed by Karol G at 9:55 p.m. ET. Karol G will become the first Latina woman headliner at Coachella.
That matters because Coachella is one of the most influential music events in the world and a major platform for global exposure. The 2026 lineup points to a continued rise in the presence of Mexican and Latin American artists, building on earlier regional Mexican appearances at the festival by Peso Pluma, Junior H and Carín León. Cachirula & Loojan are part of that same push, and RØZ adds another Mexican act to the weekend through the project led by Manolo Cabrera and Hugo Lara.
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The festival is also widening access beyond the desert. Coachella will offer a free broadcast through YouTube and the official Coachella app, letting viewers follow the weekend without a ticket. That means the clearest answer to what this lineup signals is already on the schedule: Latin artists are not being treated as a side note in 2026, but as part of the main draw.
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The question now is not whether the festival is making room for that audience. It already has. The more immediate test is how far this larger Latin presence carries once the music starts Friday night and the stream opens to everyone watching from home.
