After making her Coachella debut in 2024, Sabrina Carpenter is returning to the desert as a 2026 headliner. The moment feels full-circle: during her 2024 set, she even teased it in her now-viral “Nonsense” outro, telling the crowd, “Coachella, see you back here when I headline.” Now, she’s doing exactly that.
She’s also been building toward this performance for months. In an interview with Perfect magazine, Carpenter called it her “most ambitious show” yet. “It’s probably the most time I’ve ever had to actually just sit down and talk about a show as I’m building it,” she said, adding, “It will be very special.”
Ahead of the festival, Carpenter teamed up with Airbnb to launch “Sabrina’s Pit Stop,” a surreal, desert-themed pop-up experience in Indio designed as a hangout spot for fans rather than a place to stay.
As anticipation builds, fans are eager to find out when she’ll take the stage, what time to tune in, and what songs could make her setlist. Here’s everything to know.
Carpenter is set to headline Friday, April 10 and April 17, kicking off both Coachella weekends as the festival’s opening-night headliner.
She’s one of the three main headliners this year, alongside Justin Bieber and Karol G.
Carpenter is scheduled to take the main stage from 9:05 p.m. to 10:35 p.m. PT on Friday during Weekend 1.
