The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival opened its 25th edition on Friday and Saturday at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, with KATSEYE, Lizzo, Sexyy Red, Slayyyter and Sombr among the acts seen on the first weekend. Festivalgoers filled the grounds as photo editors assembled photos from the two-day stretch of the desert event.
On Friday, April 10, 2026, Megan Skiendiel, Daniela Avanzini, Yoonchae Jeong, Lara Raj and Sophia Laforteza of KATSEYE performed, while Lizzo and Sexyy Red also took the stage and David Lee Roth posed for a portrait. Slayyyter performed that same day, giving the opening night a mix of pop, rap and nostalgia before the crowd headed into the rest of the weekend.
The festival’s return to the Empire Polo Club matters because Coachella is built as much on atmosphere as on the lineup, and the pictures from Saturday, April 11, showed that in full. Festivalgoers were seen at the Do LaB stage, while Sombr performed later in the day, adding another layer to a weekend that still defines spring music-festival culture in Southern California.
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The set of photos also points to what comes next: more performances, more crowd scenes and more moments that will shape how this 25th edition is remembered. If Friday established the breadth of the lineup, Saturday showed the festival’s other constant — the audience itself, moving from stage to stage as the weekend unfolded.
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