After Lainey Wilson‘s headlining Saturday night (April 25) set was delayed an hour or so due to the Stagecoach grounds being temporarily evacuated because of strong winds, she made a triumphant performance on Stagecoach’s massive Mane Stage, blending heartfelt ballads, energetic barn burners, and vivid musical spectacle.

“Thank you so much for sticking out the wind,” the five-time Billboard Country Airplay chart-topping artist told the packed crowd of concertgoers who had braved the winds and evacuation to make it to the set. “Hopefully you sat in y’alls cars for a bit and drank some tequila,” she said, adding, “We came to Stagecoach to have a d–n good time, and that’s what we gonna do.”

Back in 2022, Wilson played an early afternoon set on a tiny stage at Stagecoach, when the singer-songwriter had just earned her first hits. But Saturday night, she headlined the country music festival’s biggest stage.

Two-time CMA entertainer of the year winner Wilson, clad in her signature bell bottoms, commanded the stage, playing songs including the funky “Ring Finger” and the tender “Good Horses Come Home,” as well as “Bell Bottoms Up,” “Road Runner,” “Hang Tight Honey” and “Country’s Cool Again.” Her songs touched on love, heartbreak, betrayal, work ethic and ambition. A massive horseshoe was centered on the stage, while large cactuses dotted the perimeter of the stage, which was often drenched in warm, sunny lighting that added a cozy ambience to the evening desert vibe that night in Indio, California.

Her fiddle player offered up an elegant melody of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow,” then Wilson launched into her lovely hit “Somewhere Over Laredo.” She later offered up an older song from her catalog, with the supportive, uplifting 2018 song “Dreamcatcher.”

When the evacuation took place Saturday night, it forced singer-songwriter Riley Green’s set to be nixed. But Wilson surprised the crowd by welcoming Green and Little Big Town (who had performed their own set on the Mane Stage earlier in the evening) to the stage during her own show.

“Y’all like Merle Haggard, right?” Wilson asked. “Oh, yeah!” Green replied before launching into a bit of Haggard’s 1980 Billboard Hot Country Songs chart-topper “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink,” with Little Big Town lending their own superb vocals to the rendition.

“Good times and good country music,” Wilson said, leading the audience in taking a celebratory drink. As Little Big Town and Green began to exit the stage, Wilson called Green back to center stage.

“I know how excited all of you were to see Riley Green tonight, so I think you need to do a song,” Wilson said. The crowd started chanting Green’s name. With just a guitar, Green performed his 2019 hit “I Wish Grandpas Never Died.”

Green and Little Big Town weren’t the only guests Wilson welcomed that evening. During her rendition of “Things A Man Oughta Know,” she also briefly paused to carry on a tradition her shows are known for, as she honored one young girl in the audience as “cowgirl of the night.” Welcoming the girl to the stage, Wilson told her that being a cowgirl isn’t about boots or a hat, but “about grit, about fire, about independence, about a girl that can be wild and grounded at the same time.”

She wrapped her show with two of her biggest hits, “4x4xU” and a song that embodies that sense of having grit and passion, “Heart Like a Truck.”

“I hope you’ve had the time of your life like we have,” she thanked the crowd as her set came to a close, later adding, “Thank you for making my dreams come true right before my very eyes.”

Cyndi Lauper is headlining The Colosseum at Caesers Palace in Las Vegas over a five-night run — and her show will play out however she wants it to.

During the artist’s opening-night set Friday (April 24), showgoers report she was loudly interrupted ahead of singing “Sally’s Pigeons” from 1993’s Hat Full of Stars album. Lauper seemed to be having a storyteller moment — sharing a tidbit about the track with the audience — when someone in the crowd shouted out something unintelligible.

“I don’t know what the f— you’re saying, hun,” Lauper said, as heard in a video recording from the concert posted by TMZ on Saturday. “But please remember where you are, OK? Because if you’re trying to shade me, b—-, I’m gonna come for you. I’m from Brooklyn, and if I wanna f—ing talk, I will do a tap dance if I f—ing want.”

“Sorry, that of course is not part of my people skills,” she joked after that.

Lauper’s Live in Las Vegas show kicked off April 24, with further performances scheduled for April 25, April 29, May 1 and May 2. Though limited to five dates, it marks her career-first Vegas residency; it also gives fans another chance to see her perform live following her Farewell Tour, which wrapped last year.

In 2025, she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

“It’s a community of people, rockers that have changed the world,” Lauper — who, besides being a Hall of Famer and Hot 100 chart topper (“Time After Time,” “True Colours”) is also a Grammy, Emmy and Tony winner — told Billboard of the honor last year. “Here’s the thing: I still believe that rock ‘n’ roll can save the world. I just want people to remember that we did make a difference. We can make a difference if we band together. We must come together as a community and make light and bring people together to make change, to do the good work.”

Stagecoach Festival was briefly evacuated Saturday night after high winds forced organizers to halt performances and clear the festival grounds, prompting significant changes to the evening’s lineup — including the removal of Journey from the bill.

Following the disruption, updated set times shared by the festival confirmed that Journey, who had been scheduled to perform on the Mustang Stage, would no longer appear Saturday night.

Headliner Lainey Wilson will instead take the Mane Stage an hour later than originally planned, now set for 10:30 p.m., while Riley Green has also been removed from the evening lineup.

Additional adjustments include Pitbull’s late-night Mustang Stage set shifting from an 11 p.m. start to midnight, running through 1 a.m., and Gavin Adcock — whose earlier set was cut short — now joining the Whiskey Jam All-Star Sing-Along in the Palomino Tent later in the evening.

The evacuation was triggered by high winds that intensified across the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, where the festival is held. An “emergency evacuation” message appeared on screens across the site, instructing attendees to “move quickly and calmly to the nearest exit,” while alerts sent via the festival’s official app directed festivalgoers to leave the area.

The disruption affected multiple stages, with the Mane Stage between sets at the time the evacuation notice was issued. Winds had been building throughout the day, with gusts increasing into the evening under a regional wind advisory.

Billboard’s Jessica Nicholson, who was on-site, described the situation unfolding at the Palomino Stage, where Adcock’s performance was halted.

“I was at the Palomino Stage when they stopped Gavin Adcock’s show,” Nicholson reported. “The screens on either side of the Palomino stage lit up red and had a message that said ‘Stage Area Closed, please keep away from this area,’ then it later said to evacuate the area.”

Video from attendees showed large crowds exiting the venue, though the atmosphere remained largely calm as festivalgoers moved toward exits.

Stagecoach later confirmed via social media that the festival would resume shortly, writing that it was “working to open doors and prep the site for your safety,” before reopening the gates later in the evening. Updated set times were subsequently posted across the festival’s social channels, reflecting the revised schedule.

Stagecoach, one of the largest country music festivals in the United States, is held annually at the same site as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and draws tens of thousands of attendees.

Foo Fighters are booked as musical guest on this weekend’s SNL UK, but fans didn’t have to wait for the band’s live performance to air for their first Dave Grohl spotting of the night.

For Bridgerton and Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan’s turn hosting Saturday night’s (April 25) episode of the original SNL spinoff, an American SNL veteran popped in — to encourage the Irish actress to make some mischief while the cameras are rolling during the program’s live broadcast. Viewers in the United States can catch a clip of her monologue below from broadcaster Sky TV.

After making a monologue joke about consuming “a staggering amount of cocaine” to recreate “the magic of original 1970s SNL,” Coughlan says in the video, “But look, it’s an honor to be hosting. It’s sort of feels like I manifested it somehow. It’s almost like this place is like, magic.”

“That’s because it is,” announces Jimmy Fallon, appearing on stage out of the blue to impart “the biggest secret of SNL” to Saturday’s host.

“Don’t tell anyone, but … it’s live,” Fallon says. “It’s actually live. You can do whatever you want. You can go wherever you want. You’re the host. They don’t stop you!”

And so the pair takes a backstage stroll that has Coughlan feeling the power that comes with taking control. Run-ins with cast members ensue, but it’s a certain rock musician that stops her in her tracks.

“Jimmy. Jimmy. It’s Dave Grohl,” Coughlan says in a hushed tone upon spotting the Foo Fighters vocalist, to which Fallon suggests, “You should ask him to be best friends — because we’re live. He has to say yes.”

Coughlan shoots her shot. Sure enough, Grohl plays the yes man: “Sure, why not?” he replies. The new besties share a high five and heart hands.

“That was incredible!” Coughlan exclaims.

Watch Coughlan’s SNL monologue, featuring Jimmy Fallon plus a cameo from Dave Grohl, in the video below uploaded to the official SNK UK YouTube channel. She’s currently one of the stars in the family film The Magic Faraway Tree, now playing in the U.K. and set for release in the U.S. in August.