Sheryl Crow performs on the Mane Stage during the Stagecoach Country Music Festival on Sunday.

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Sheryl Crow performs on the Mane Stage during the Stagecoach Country Music Festival on Sunday.

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Stagecoach headliner Brad Paisley performs on the Mane Stage during the sold-out Stagecoach Country Music Festival on Sunday.

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Stagecoach headliner Brad Paisley performs on the Mane Stage during the sold-out Stagecoach Country Music Festival on Sunday.

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Martina McBride performs on the Mane Stage at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

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Martina McBride performs on the Mane Stage at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

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The Band Perry lead singer Kimberly Perry performs on the Mane Stage.

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Aaron Lewis performs on the Palomino Stage.

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The Band Perry lead singer Kimberly Perry performs on the Mane Stage.

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Roy Clark performs on the Palomino Stage during the Stagecoach Country Music Festival on Sunday at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio.

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Split Lip Rayfield members Wayne Gottsteine, left, on mandolin, Jeff Eaton on gas-tank bass and Eric Mardis on banjo perform on the Mustang Stage.

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Fans cheer at sunset as Roy Clark performs on the Palomino Stage.

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Elizabeth Cook performs with her band on the Palomino Stage.

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A sold-out crowd cheers on Blake Shelton as he performs on the Mane Stage.

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A sold-out crowd cheers on Blake Shelton as he performs on the Mane Stage.

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Blake Shelton performs on the Mane Stage.

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Blake Shelton performs.

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Sunny Sweeney performs on the Mane Stage.

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Dave Alvin and his band the Guilty Ones rock the Palomino Stage.

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Sara Watkins performs on the Palomino Stage.

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Ralph Stanley, 85, of Ralph Stanley and His Clinch Mountain Boys speaks about his long career aboard his bus before performing on the Mustang Stage.

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John McEuen performs with the McEuen Sessions on the Palomino Stage.

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Members of Old Man Markley perform on the Mustang Stage.

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JD Crowe and the New South perform.

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Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers perform on the Mustang Stage.

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Ralph Stanley, 85, performs with His Clinch Mountain Boys on the Mustang Stage.

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Justin Moore performs on the Mane Stage.

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Jenna Bonker, 11, of Costa Mesa joins a sold-out crowd as she gets a close-up view of Luke Bryan performing on the Mane Stage.

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A sold-out crowd cheers as Luke Bryan performs on the Mane Stage.

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Miranda Lambert performs.

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Miranda Lambert performs on the Mane Stage -- the final act for Saturday.

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Miranda Lambert performs on the Mane Stage.

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Miranda Lambert, Saturday's final act, performs on the Mane Stage at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

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Steve Jones, left, lead singer of the Unforgiven on the Palomino Stage.

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Fans hold up hats and an image of Willie Nelson as they cheer on Brett Eldredge's performance on the Mane Stage.

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Mike Eli performs with the Eli Young Band on the Mane Stage.

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Jeana Dea of Costa Mesa sports a longhorn belt buckle at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

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Dean Smith of Camp Pendleton dances with Chelsea Hecht of Bozeman, Mont., while Brett Eldredge performs on the first day of the three-day Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

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Country music fans arrive with refreshments via a pedicab on the first day of the festival.

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RV campers greet arriving fans from a high vantage point on the first day of the three-day Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio.

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Jenna Bonker, 11, rides high on the shoulders of her brother, Ryan Bonker, 14, of Costa Mesa as they get a close view of Sara Evans performing.

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John Jeff of the Blacksmith Boys shows Matthew McCollough, 5, of Rockland, how to play his homemade washtub mandolin outside the Half-Pint Hootenanny kids area on the first day of the three-day Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

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Sara Evans performs.

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Sara Evans performs on the Mane Stage.

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Sara Evans performs on the Mane Stage.

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Alabama guitarist and vocalist Randy Owen performs on the Mane Stage.

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Alabama guitarist and vocalist Randy Owen performs on the Mane Stage.

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Under a red floodlight, country music fans line dance between acts.

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Jason Aldean performs on the first day of the three-day Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

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Jason Aldean performs on the Mane Stage.

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From left, Jason Aldean, guitarist Kurt Allison and bassist Tully Kennedy perform on the Mane Stage.

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The sun peers through Sara Allen's raised hand as she cheers on Sunny Sweeney's performance on the Mane Stage.

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