Posted: Thurs., Oct. 8, 2009, 5:04pm PT

Urban, Keith top Stagecoach fest

Country music festival to be held April 24-25

Top stars Keith Urban, Toby Keith, Brooks & Dunn and Sugarland will headline the 2010 Stagecoach country festival.

The fourth desert hoe-down, co-produced by Goldenvoice, the Messina Group and Moore Entertainment, will be held April 24-25 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. Fest usually follows massive Coachella rock event, held on the same site, by a week.

Tickets go on sale Oct. 16.

Multi-stage presentation will offer a diversity of country styles. Besides contemporary chart-toppers, next year's fest will present old-school luminaries Merle Haggard, Ray Price, the Oak Ridge Boys and Bill Anderson; cutting-edge Nashville blades Jamey Johnson and Gary Allan; and alt-country artists the Avett Brothers, Mary Gauthier and Chuck Mead.

Stagecoach is sponsored by ABC Daytime, Soapnet, Budweiser and Sony Playstation.


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