The seasons of spring and summer bring excitement to those who love music. These seasons have the most anticipated music festivals on the West Coast. Coachella, Sasquatch, and Watershed. These festivals are the highlights of the year for many music lovers. During the last six weeks, lineups have been sparatically released in preparation for ticket sales.

Coachella is in California, yet hundreds of people across the country buy a plane ticket to attend the famous festival. Coachella music has a widespread range of genres from rap to pop to electronic. This years lineup includes performances by A$AP Rocky, G-Eazy, Ellie Goulding, Flume, Rl Grime, The Chainsmokers, Zedd, and about one hundred other artists.

The Sasquatch music festival that takes place in May at the Gorge Amphitheater has announced their lineup of around one hundred and ten artists, including Florence and the Machine, A$AP Rocky, Disclosure, Grimes, Baauer, Major Lazer, and The Cure. The lineups of Sasquatch and Coachella are very similar, however Sasquatch is smaller, cheaper, and closer.

Watershed is the last major music festival of the season. This summer is the first year the festival will be occurring on two different weekends. One being July 29-31 and the second being
the following weekend, August 5-7. Despite the festival having two weekends, there is only one difference in the two lineups. Tyler Farr who is most well known for his newest album Suffer in Peace will be performing at the first festival but he will not be performing for the following weekends festival. The stars of the 2016 lineup includes Jason Aldean, Keith Urban, David Nail, Tyler Farr, Eric Church, Brett Eldridge, and A Thousand Horses. Bella Oishi ’17 is going to Watershed for the first time this summer and says “I am thrilled that her favorite country singer Jason Aldean is going to be performing.”