Zach Bryan, Jelly Roll and Luke Combs will headline the 2025 Stagecoach country music festival, organizers announced Thursday, reuniting three superstars who each followed their own paths to the top of the genre.
The three-day event, scheduled for April 25-27 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, will also feature Brothers Osborne, Shaboozey, Sturgill Simpson, Midland, Carly Pearce, Ashley McBryde, Koe Wetzel, Scotty McCreery, Whiskey Myers, Sierra Ferrell and Tucker Wetmore.
Among the non-country artists on the bill at the annual event, which takes place on the same property as Coachella and has been slowly broadening its stylistic footprint since its debut in 2007, are two performers who made cameos at this year’s edition of the festival: the singer and rapper T-Pain, who appeared onstage with Jelly Roll in April to cover Toby Keith’s “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” and Lana Del Rey, who joined Paul Cauthen to sing “Unchained Melody” and later danced onstage with Mike Love while the Beach Boys performed “Barbara Ann.” (Del Rey has said she is working on a country album called “Lasso.”)
Rock bands Creed and the Goo Goo Dolls, pop veterans Backstreet Boys and former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar will also be at Stagecoach, as will rapper Nelly, who is scheduled to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his 2000 debut, “Country Grammar.”
Bryan’s hiring is the latest sign that, after a few years of seeming ambivalence about the country music industry, the singer-songwriter who got his start posting basic live videos on social media is starting to see a place for himself within the genre. The Jelly Roll headlining slot will come a little more than two years after the face-tattooed former rapper scored his first No. 1 country hit with “Son of a Sinner.” (He’s scheduled to perform at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena on Friday night before he releases a new album next month.)
Meanwhile, Combs is headlining for the second time following a 2022 headlining gig by the established country hitmaker who turned heads outside of Nashville last year with his rendition of Tracy Chapman's “Fast Car.”
Other acts scheduled to perform at Stagecoach include Dylan Scott, Nikki Lane, Dylan Gossett, Dasha, Flatland Cavalry, Tracy Lawrence, Conner Smith and Tommy James & the Shondells.
Festival passes, which start at $579 and go up to $4,000 for various VIP packages, go on sale Sept. 13.
