Shaq, Saweetie to headline New Year’s Eve concert at Coachella Crossroads

Shaquille O’Neal connected the reddish carpet astatine the 2019 NBA Awards astatine Barker Hanger successful Santa Monica connected Monday, June 24, 2019. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Coachella Crossroads, an outdoor venue successful Indio, has announced a New Year’s Eve extravaganza with hoops large Shaquille O’Neal, successful his record-spinning persona DJ Diesel, and rapper Saweetie.

Tickets spell connected merchantability to the nationalist astatine 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 29.

The amusement could tally astir six hours, starting astatine 8 p.m. and ending earlier 2 a.m., according to a quality release. It volition see a countdown to midnight followed by fireworks.

Other artists connected the measure see E-40 and Getter arsenic good arsenic aerialists, stilt walkers, unrecorded painters and unrecorded looping, which is signaling and adding layers of dependable to a show successful existent time.

The lawsuit volition diagnostic installations by Los Angeles-based Do Lab, which has supplied striking visuals for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival successful adjacent Indio for respective years.

Coachella Crossroads is owned by the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians. It is adjacent to the Spotlight 29 casino, different endeavor of the tribe.

The people broke crushed connected the 47-acre property successful 2018, envisioning abstraction that could beryllium utilized for outdoor concerts, car shows, shot fields, backstage events specified arsenic quinceañeras and impermanent lodging for euphony festivals astatine different sites. The Coachella euphony festival successful Indio and its sister event, the Stagecoach Country Music Festival, are expected to instrumentality spot successful April aft skipping 2020 and 2021 owed to the coronavirus pandemic.

Coachella Crossroads debuted with a Toby Keith concert successful May, earlier California lifted its COVID-19 restrictions, and hosted a Fourth of July fireworks amusement aft that.

It had 2 events connected its calendar for September but postponed them, citing COVID concerns. One of the events, a two-day Mexican Independence Day festival, was rescheduled for May. The other, a Miranda Lambert concert, is yet to beryllium rescheduled.

Shortly aft those events were postponed, Spotlight 29 announced a series of indoor concerts October done December successful its 2,200-seat showroom. Through its spokesman, the people said that the smaller indoor concerts are safer than a 10,000-person outdoor show.

There is simply a information connection connected the Coachella Crossroads website that reads, “As the lawsuit day approaches, we volition supply our assemblage with pertinent accusation connected performance preparedness, including what whitethorn beryllium required beyond a summons to participate festival grounds.”

The New Year’s Eve performance is presently the lone lawsuit connected Coachella Crossroads’ website.

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Where: 46605 Dillon Road, Coachella.

When: 8 p.m. Dec. 31; parking batch and container bureau unfastened astatine 6 p.m.

Tickets: $99 positive fees for wide admission; $500 for VIP admission.

Information: coachellacrossroads.com