Why does Coachella have a curfew?
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The city of Indio fined the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival $117,000 over breaking curfew.
Here is everything you need to know.
Coachella is fined $117,000 for violating curfew rules
A city representative revealed that Coachella had to pay a $117,000 fine for violating curfew for three consecutive evenings.
Moreover, they shared that the six-figure sum totaled over an hour and 10 minutes in time past the curfew for the music festival.
In addition, sources claim that the deadline on Friday and Saturday is 1 am while it is lowered to midnight on Sundays.
Coachella has been fined $117,000 for going past curfew on all three nights of the first weekend. pic.twitter.com/CEqnh7JUNi
— Pop Base (@PopBase) April 17, 2023
However, the festival broke the curfew on all three evenings and went more than their respective deadlines by 25 minutes, 22 minutes, and 25 minutes.
Meanwhile, Coachella promoter Goldenvoice has signed a pact with the city of Indio to follow the city curfew rules.
Additionally, the agreement states that a $20,000 fine will be stipulated if any show stretches beyond the extra initial five minutes over curfew.
Furthermore, the festival organizer has to pay a $1,000 fine for every minute the event ran past the deadline after that.
Besides that, the sum collected from fines is used to finance operations costs of the city such as public services and police and fire departments.
Yup, it's true. Coachella was fined for going past their curfew thanks to Bad Bunny, Calvin Harris, and Frank Ocean lol
— GDE (@GlobalDanceGDE) April 18, 2023
Curfew is 1 AM on Friday and Saturday and midnight on Sunday, and Coachella missed the cutoff time on all three nights, going over by 25 minutes Friday, 22… pic.twitter.com/SgQ17zGvWF
Also, an insider said that the promoter has entered into a contract with the Southern California desert city in 2013. It will continue to take place through the year 2050.
The curfew rules restrict anybody of the age of 18 and under from loitering ‘on or about the public place.’
These rules are not limited to, ‘streets, avenues, alleys, parks, playgrounds or other grounds, places, buildings, places of amusement, eating establishments, public or private vacant lots or any unsupervised place.’
The Code Library says that the minor is restricted from lingering, ‘between the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 5:00 A.M from Sunday to Thursday and between 11:00 P.M and 5:00 AM on other two days.’
Frank Ocean’s Coachella performance is cut short due to the curfew
Frank Ocean’s act at this year’s Coachella abruptly ended after a song due to the curfew. He took the stage at the music festival on the weekend.
According to reports, Ocean began his set an hour late at Coachella. In addition, he was on the stage for over an hour before closing his show twenty minutes past midnight.
He reportedly said, ‘Guys, I’m being told it’s a curfew, so that’s the end of the show. Thank you so much.’
