Teens too cool for Coachella music festival start their own event next door

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http://fusion.net/story/294589/too-cool-for-coachella-go-to-this-festival-next-door/?utm_source=fusiondaily&bt_ts=32678&utm_campaign=04222016&bt_email=phunclesam%40yahoo.com&utm_medium=email

When music fans step into the polo fields of Coachella Music and Arts Festival, this weekend they’ll be confronted by larger-than-life figures: two 30-foot tall sculptures made out of wood that honor members of the region’s Mexican farmworker community who can’t afford the event.

The Coachella-based artists who were commissioned by the festival to create the sculpture titled the piece Sneaking Into the Show, because that’s one of the only ways locals can actually attend the three-day festival. Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez, who collaborate as The Date Farmers, grew up in the Coachella Valley with parents who worked in the date agriculture business.

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“The Coachella music festival is a luxury a lot of our families can’t afford,” said Jessica Gonzales, a senior at Desert Mirage High School who grew up in the Eastern Coachella Valley. “The festival appropriates the [Coachella] name and doesn’t relate to our community,” she said in a telephone interview from her home in Northshore, one of the towns that make up the Eastern Coachella Valley.

At the end of the month, following the last weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, local high school students in the region will present their own youth-organized music festival they say better reflects the real Coachella Valley.

The students have taken some cues from the neighboring behemoth festival; they’ll be presenting 22 bands on two stages over the course of 10 hours. The free event, attended by over 2,000 attendees last year, will feature bands and artists who are from the local community. The high school students have dubbed the event The Hue Festival.

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1. Coachella is about the Kardashians

and other vapid celebs.
I'll bet the Hue concert is better. Good for them.