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Coachella heading east this year?

Report says it's bound for the tri-state area

January 14, 2008 | 3 Comments
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The Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival is heading for the east coast, it is being reported.

The festival is still scheduled to take place at it’s usual location of Indio in the Californian desert, but an additional festival is apparently in the works.

According to Perezhilton.com, it will take place in New York or New Jersey in August. The website quotes an unidentified source in the news piece.

Press officials for Coachella were unable to confirm the report today.

A new east coast festival called Vineland was confirmed late last year on NME.COM. It is being put together by organizers of Lollapalooza and Reading/Leeds Festivals.

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moviegurl16

Jan 15, 2008

oh hell no! this is the only festival that is close to where I live, and I'm not gonna go 3,000 miles to see bands unless it's a great band. It has to stay close to home.

stuporfly

Jan 15, 2008

moviegurl16 - If you'd read anything beyond the headline, you'd have realized they were talking about an additional festival, not ditching California for New York. You could have spared us all the opening Will Smith salvo.

Barak

Jan 16, 2008

The festival will be called Liberty and is being put together by Live Nation. it will be held in a New Jersey park overlooking the Statue of Liberty. Jack Johnson is rumoured to be on the bill.