Get Your Cowboy Hats and Boots Out: It's Stagecoach 2013

Country music fans began filling Indio's Empire Polo Club Friday for the Stagecoach country music festival.

The festival, which runs through Sunday, will be headlined by Toby Keith, Hank Williams Jr. and Trace Adkins on Friday, Lady Antebellum, Dierks Bentley and Dwight Yoakam on Saturday and the Zac Brown Band, Lonestar and the Charlie Daniels Band on Sunday.

Friday's first set was scheduled to start at 12:20 p.m. at the Palomino Stage, one of three on site.

Other acts for the seventh annual festival include Darius Rucker, Thompson Square, Phil Vassar, the Blue Sky Riders and Jeff Bridges and the Abiders.

More than 55,000 people attended last year's Stagecoach, which expanded from two to three days for the first time. The festival brought in more than $13 million in gross sales, according to Billboard magazine.

Stagecoach's sister festival, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, was held the previous two weekends at the polo grounds.

To check out more on the lineup and other information, visit the Stagecoach site here.

Also, remember to plan ahead when driving around town.  A list of road closures is available here.

Different from 'Coachella'

Noticeably different this weekend from the previous two weekends at the polo grounds is the crowd in attendance.

While last week's (and the week before) crowd was an "indie" music loving crowd, seen dressed in a distinct 'festival' fashion style, with free-flowing tops and skirts and an overall I-don't-care-what-I-look-like-but-I-spent-a-fortune-doing-it look dominating the landscape— this weekend's group has a different thing in mind.

Cowboy hats are the must-have staple, along with a pair of boots.  

Many on-site campers also trade in their tents for massive, luxury RVs.

What's more, the country music fans tend to be a bit more rowdy— over the three day period the festival was held.  Compare that to this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival .

What do YOU think is most different between the two music crowds?  Tell us in the comments!