Kacey Musgraves performs onstage during Palomino Festival held at Brookside at the Rose Bowl on Jin Pasadena, California. Musgraves’ capping set proceeded largely along the lines of the arena tour that already passed through the area’s Arena back in February - even down to the introductory language, that with the divorce-themed “Star-Crossed,” she had made a “fucking depressing” album, but that the next hour would constitute a party anyway - with one notable exception. That ratio reversed itself later when the bill’s undercard gave way to headliners, but still, with Musgraves at the very top of the lineup, it was not difficult to see that the roster represented the kind of moderately progressive thinking a country festival based in greater L.A. Although no one would have mistaken the grounds for the most diverse place on earth, people of color, gay artists and women - all traditionally long marginalized in mainstream country - were decently represented on the bill… to the extent that, at one point early in the day, six out of seven acts playing in one sequential stretch were female artists. Still, a little enforced sobriety was a small price to pay for a festival that made country feel like a big tent. What wasn’t to like?Įxcept for, maybe, supply-chain issues that reportedly caused many of the bars to run out of craft cocktails early in the day. Indeed, this new single-day country/Americana gathering - set in the Brookside Park area directly adjacent to the Rose Bowl - had Goldenvoice essentially taking all of the best things about its Stagecoach Festival out in Indio (like the cred bookings that usually take place on that fest’s Palomino side-stage), jettisoned the not-great parts (the bro-country, leagues of drunken spring breakers and Bataan parking-lot death marches), and moved everything 110 miles closer to town, for most. But today has been genuinely great,” Isbell said, referring to a lineup that was about to be headlined by Kacey Musgraves and earlier had seen performances by Willie Nelson, Orville Peck, Old Crow Medicine Show, Turnpike Troubadours, Valerie June, Amythyst Kiah, Charley Crockett and Nikki Lane, among others.
“Most of the time on these festivals, there’s a couple people I don’t give a shit about. Jason Isbell, performing the penultimate set at the inaugural Palomino Festival in Pasadena on Saturday, took time out near the end of his performance to comment on the rock-solidness of the day’s nearly 20-artist bill, giving voice to what a lot of impressed attendees were no doubt thinking.
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