Carrie Underwood will headline the Stagecoach Country Music Festival Saturday evening, following performers including Brothers Osborne, Lee Brice and Cody Jinks.
Underwood is scheduled to perform at 9:50 p.m. on the Mane Stage. She shared her guitar with Twitter on Wednesday in anticipation for her performance. “‘Does your guitar have tail lights? Mine does!” Underwood said.
The night will end with a performance by Orville Peck on the Palomino Stage at 11:20 p.m. Orville is fresh off performing at both weekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Breland, whose music fuses hip-hop, country and R&B, ended the night at the Palomino stage on Friday. He also made an appearance during the NFL Draft on Saturday from the festival grounds to announce the fifth-round pick of the Philadelphia Eagles in what appeared to be a pre-taped introduction.
Country star Thomas Rhett took over the Mane Stage on Friday, bringing on actor Ashton Kutcher for a rendition of Garth Brooks’ 1990 hit “Friends In Low Places.”
Meanwhile, Luke Combs will headline Sunday, following performers including The Black Crowes, Cody Johnson and Smokey Robinson.
Some Stagecoach performers reacted on Twitter to the death of country vocalist Naomi Judd on Saturday. The 76-year-old Grammy-winnner was one half of mother-daughter duo The Judds.
Underwood tweeted, “Country music lost a true legend … sing with the angels, Naomi!!! We’re all sending up prayers for the Judd family today…”
Maren Morris, who played the Mane Stage Friday night, tweeted, “Rest In Peace, Naomi Judd. Honored to have witnessed ‘Love Can Build a Bridge’ just a few short weeks ago.”
Festival organizers have banned “divisive symbols, including, without limitation, Confederate flags and racially disparaging or other inappropriate imagery/public displays,” from this year’s festival.
The festival’s code of conduct declares, “Stagecoach provides an inclusive environment and rejects divisive symbols. The Confederate flag and related imagery are prohibited on the festival grounds and in The Resort. This prohibition applies to people, clothing and vehicles. Access will be denied to anyone who does not cooperate with this rule.
“An individual participating in this behavior may be IMMEDIATELY removed from the venue site and festival wristband revoked. Vehicle will be ejected from the property. Offender may be arrested. No refund will be issued if ejected.”
For those who can’t make it out to the Empire Polo fields, performances are also being livestreamed on YouTube at www.youtube.com/stagecoach.