The Stagecoach festival may be headlined by Zach Bryan, Jelly Roll and Luke Combs but the surprise guests are very much warming up that crowd during the surprisingly chilly Indio nights.
During day one of the festival, Paris Hilton brought out Lizzo as part of her set at Diplo’s Honky Tonk as she impressed the crowd with a performance of her hit “Truth Hurts.” Later that night, T-Pain closed things out with a late-night set at the Palomino stage and brought out Kesha as they performed “Yippie-Ki-Yay,” a song from her most recent release.
Even more surprises came with day two, which was headlined by Jelly Roll. As he took on the T-Mobile Mane Stage, he said this was “officially the biggest show I’ve ever headlined,” and with that, he brought out multiple guests. While he covered John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” MGK popped up on stage, and that served as prelude to “Lonely Road,” their duet from the the headliner’s most recent album, before Jelly Roll asked MGK to close out the three-song collaboration by performing his own hit, “My Ex’s Best Friend.”
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Jelly Roll later brought out Shaboozey, who had already played the Mane Stage earlier in the day, to play their brand new collaboration, “Amen.” Later, while Jelly Roll covered Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa’s “Young, Wild and Free,” Wiz Khalifa appeared on stage and launched into “Black & Yellow.”
A few tracks later, Jelly brought out another collaborator, Christian music star Brandon Lake. The duo performed their collaboration “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” the title track from Lake’s album of last year, which was met with roars from the crowd. Little did they know, the biggest cameo was yet to come. At the end of Jelly’s performance, he brought out Lana Del Rey, who performed her own set on Friday at the festival. Since Lainey Wilson wasn’t in attendance, she sang her part of Jelly’s “Save Me.”
For those who made it over to the Palomino Stage for the late-night set Saturday night — and thousands did — Creed also surprised the audience, bringing out Tori Kelly to join for a duet of “Higher.”
On Sunday, Midland brought out Mackenzie Carpenter, Noah Cyrus, and Tracy Lawrence.
Then, Combs closed out Stagecoach with surprise appearances by Bailey Zimmerman, for their hit “Back Up Plan;” Good Charlotte for “The Anthem” and a collaboration version of “Where the Wild Things Are”; and lastly, Garth Brooks. Brooks closed out the set with Combs, as the two performed “Friends in Low Places.”
At the late-night stage, Combs made his way over to Backstreet Boys, joining them on stage for “I Want It That Way.”
