Acrisure Arena
The desert's big room — 11,000 seats of arena-class touring acts
Upcoming Live Music (1)
Sat, Aug 87:30 PM Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire - Sing a Song All Night LongAbout Acrisure Arena
For decades the Coachella Valley had world-famous festivals and no true arena — the big tours simply drove past on the 10. That ended on December 14, 2022, when Acrisure Arena opened on Varner Road in Thousand Palms: an 11,000-seat, purpose-built room designed from the steel up for hockey and concerts.
The building pulls double duty. It's the home ice of the American Hockey League's Coachella Valley Firebirds, and between games it takes the valley's biggest bookings — legacy headliners, arena rock tours, and residency-scale productions that used to require a drive to Los Angeles or a casino showroom compromise.
For desert music fans the shift is simple: the acts that once skipped the valley now route through it. Check the calendar below — when a big name plays the desert, odds are this is the address.
Only Here
- Opened December 14, 2022 — the Coachella Valley's first arena-scale music venue
- Seats 11,000 for concerts
- Home of the AHL's Coachella Valley Firebirds
- Paul McCartney has played the room — the kind of booking the valley never landed before it existed
- The attached Berger Foundation Iceplex gives the desert year-round public ice