Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Madonna to Perform at Coachella, Unconfirmed Tour Dates

This news is breaking fast. Madonna will be perfoming on April 30 at the Coachella Music Festival in the Sahara tent. This is the first time the superstar will appear at a music festival. Get your tickets now. Also performing: Depeche Mode, Imogen Heap, The Infadels and many other Arjan Writes favorites. The seventh annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will be held at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA on April 29 and April 30.

From the formal WBR press release: "After months of rumors, Madonna has confirmed she will perform April 30 at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. The artist will appear backed by a live band in the festival's dance and electronica-oriented Sahara Tent, which has been headlined in past years by Kraftwerk, Underworld and Fatboy Slim, among others. "I've never performed at a festival," Madonna says, "and I'm especially excited about playing at Coachella before I start my own tour."

That trek is expected to begin in May and visit much smaller venues than the artist has frequented in the past. It comes in support of Madonna's 2005 album "Confessions on a Dance Floor," which has sold 1.29 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Madonna joins recent additions Daft Punk and Massive Attack on the bill for Coachella, which will be headlined on April 29 by Depeche Mode and April 30 by Tool."

RUMORS: Coachella is a confirmed tour date. Other Madonna tour dates and cities are discussed and rumored about.

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