Garth Brooks, Riley Green, Zach Top to Headline Stagecoach 2027: ‘A Guaranteed Good Time’
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Country stars Garth Brooks, Riley Green and Zach Top have been confirmed as the 2027 Stagecoach festival headliners, with the annual event returning to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, from 23-25 April 2027. The announcement matters as a major moment for one of country music's biggest festivals, with Brooks making his Stagecoach debut, Green returning after his 2026 set was cancelled due to an emergency evacuation and high winds, and Top stepping up to headliner status after playing a smaller stage in 2024.
The wider bill spans country, rock, pop, Latin and reggae, featuring HARDY, Turnpike Troubadours, Charley Crockett, Willie Nelson & Family, Kelly Clarkson, Shaboozey, Journey, Pitbull, Carín León and Matchbox Twenty, among others. Florida Georgia Line will play a special late-night reunion set, their first announced performance since 2018, alongside late-night slots from Sean Paul and Flo Rida, while returning attractions include Diplo's HonkyTonk and Guy Fieri's Stagecoach Smokehouse. Tickets go on sale on Friday, 18 September at 11am PT, with payment plans available from $49 down, and Amazon Music will livestream the festival for a fifth consecutive year.
- Garth Brooks, Riley Green, Zach Top to headline Stagecoach 2027
- Festival runs 23-25 April 2027 in Indio, California
- Florida Georgia Line to play reunion set; tickets on sale 18 September
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Country music's biggest annual festival, Stagecoach, is held each spring at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, drawing large crowds for a weekend of country and related genres. Each year the event is built around a small number of headline acts, and organisers have now confirmed the top names for the 2027 edition, taking place from 23 to 25 April. Garth Brooks, Riley Green and Zach Top are the three artists topping the bill.
Garth Brooks is one of the best-selling country artists of all time but has never previously performed at Stagecoach, making his appearance notable in itself. Riley Green was due to headline in 2026, but that set was called off after an emergency evacuation caused by high winds, so his return completes unfinished business from the previous year. Zach Top played a smaller stage at the festival in 2024 and has now been promoted to headliner status, reflecting his rising profile in the genre.
Beyond the headliners, Stagecoach typically features a wide-ranging lineup spanning country, rock, pop, Latin and reggae, and organises additional food, drink and late-night entertainment attractions around the main stages. This broader mix, along with ticket sales and streaming arrangements, helps explain why the festival is often discussed as a major event on the country music calendar rather than a single-genre show.
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The organisers of Stagecoach, the annual country music festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, have confirmed that Garth Brooks, Riley Green and Zach Top will headline the event's 2027 edition, scheduled to take place over three days from 23 to 25 April. The announcement continues Stagecoach's run as one of the genre's biggest annual gatherings, with organisers promising a broad mix of country, rock, pop, Latin and reggae acts across the weekend.
Among the most notable additions to the bill is a reunion set from Florida Georgia Line, who will perform as part of the festival's late-night programming on the Mustang Stage. The duo said it would be their first officially announced appearance since reports of a reunion first circulated earlier in the year, and that returning to Stagecoach—where they last performed in 2018—held particular significance for them. They will share the late-night slot with reggae and dance acts Sean Paul and Flo Rida. Riley Green, whose scheduled appearance at the 2026 festival was called off after high winds forced an emergency evacuation of the site, said he was looking forward to returning to the desert, while Zach Top reflected on how far his career had progressed since drawing crowds at a smaller stage during the 2024 festival. Garth Brooks, meanwhile, praised the event's atmosphere, describing it as personal and warmly received by both staff and fans.
Beyond the three headliners, the lineup features a wide range of artists including HARDY, Willie Nelson & Family, Kelly Clarkson, Brothers Osborne, Shaboozey, Journey, Pitbull, Carín León, Matchbox Twenty and Cameron Whitcomb, among others. Festival staples are also set to return, including Diplo's HonkyTonk dance tent, now entering its fifth year, and chef Guy Fieri's Stagecoach Smokehouse food attraction. Tickets go on sale from 11am Pacific time on Friday 18 September via the festival's website, with a payment plan available for a $49 deposit. Amazon Music will once again serve as the festival's exclusive livestream partner, marking its fifth consecutive year in that role, with coverage available through Amazon Music, Prime Video, Twitch, Amazon Live and the Amazon Music app on Fire TV.
The announcement arrives at a moment of individual momentum for several of the headliners: Riley Green is due to release a new album shortly after the lineup reveal, Zach Top has recently picked up further nominations at the Country Music Association Awards and is midway through a headline tour, and Garth Brooks is currently on the road with his own arena tour. Some coverage has also placed the lineup in a wider historical context, noting that Stagecoach's headline slots have traditionally been dominated by male artists since the festival began in 2007, with only a handful of women—among them Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Shania Twain and, most recently, Lainey Wilson—having topped the bill in that time; Kelly Clarkson remains the only woman among 2027's most prominently billed acts.
Where outlets differ
One report includes a longer list of supporting-stage acts (Turnpike Troubadours, Charley Crockett, Jo Dee Messina, Kaitlin Butts, Dasha, Stella Lefty, Stephen Wilson Jr) that the other omits or shortens.
Only one source explicitly frames the 2027 bill within Stagecoach's history of male-dominated headline slots, citing statistics on how few women have headlined since 2007 (Lambert three times, Underwood twice, Twain once, Wilson last year); the other source does not raise this point.
One source gives more detail on individual artists' current activity outside the festival—Green's forthcoming album, Top's CMA nominations, and the name of Brooks' ongoing arena tour—while the other omits these specifics.
One source explicitly states that Riley Green's 2026 Stagecoach appearance was cancelled due to an emergency evacuation and high winds, whereas the other only alludes to this indirectly through Green's quote about a 'wild ride last year'.
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