Stagecoach 2017 Tickets: Advance Sale Announced

(Eric Church and Luke Bryan are among previous years' performers. Images by Renee Schiavone)

Indio, CA — An advance ticket sale will be held this Friday for the 2017 Stagecoach Music Festival, offering country music fans their first chance to sell out the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio yet again, festival organizers announced Monday.

Beginning Friday at 9 a.m. and ending at midnight, the first round of festival passes will be available online — at www.stagecoachfestival.com — for the 11th annual festival, which will be held April 28-30.

Recently crowned Festival of the Year at the 2016 Academy of Country Music Awards, Stagecoach marked its 10th anniversary in the desert by drawing in 75,000 attendees each day of the most recent weekend festival that featured headliners Eric Church, Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan.

In 2017, the festival's attendance cap will be increased to 85,000, per an Indio City Council vote in April approving attendance increases for both the Stagecoach and Coachella festivals.

Similar to the Coachella festival's advance sale, tickets can be purchased in full or through a monthly payment plan. The payment plan is only available through the advance sale, splitting payments over the course of seven months.

General admission tickets are $269.

— By City News Service.