Stagecoach 2023: Guy Fieri, Jon Pardi toss barbecued turkey legs to hungry fans

Guy Fieri kicked off his shows at the Stagecoach Country Music Celebration on Friday, April 28 by throwing boodle into crowds including products like baseball caps and water bottles.

Things got interesting.

The Food Network star took it to another level this year at the Indio occasion with the aid of Friday Mane Stage entertainer Jon Pardi. They tossed a number of turkey legs slathered in barbecue sauce to their starving fans.

" What a hot mess," Pardi observed after he tossed the first one.


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onto a fiesta smoked turkey burrito on the Smokehoue phase on the opening day of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Pole Club in Indio on Friday, Apr. 28, 2023.( Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG). < img alt=" Country music artist Jon Pardi, center, tosses a turkey leg ..." class=" lazyload size-article_inline" data-sizes =" vehicle" data-src =" https://www.pressenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/RPE-L-SC-DAY1-0428-077-WL-1.jpg?w=620" data-srcset=" https://www.pressenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/RPE-L-SC-DAY1-0428-077-WL-1.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.pressenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/RPE-L-SC-DAY1-0428-077-WL-1.jpg?w=780 780w, https://www.pressenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/RPE-L-SC-DAY1-0428-077-WL-1.jpg?w=810 810w, https://www.pressenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/RPE-L-SC-DAY1-0428-077-WL-1.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https://www.pressenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/RPE-L-SC-DAY1-0428-077-WL-1.jpg?w=1860 1860w" > Country music artist Jon Pardi, center, tosses a turkey leg covered with barbeque sauce to a fan as TV personality and restaurateur Guy Fieri, left, searches at the Smokehoue stage on the opening day of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, Apr. 28, 2023.( Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG ). Show Caption of. Broaden. Fieri has become a component at
the festival in the last five years with his freewheeling cooking demonstrations that draw in headliners from the festival's Mane Stage. There is only a waist-high wooden railing between them and their fans. The demonstrations offer firstcomers the opportunity to get near to their idols and a little bit of complimentary food. Crowds have been cramming in at least 12 deep for the shows, although most are too far back for any personal interaction. When Fieri came on board in 2018, his main role was to curate a food camping tent including barbecue from throughout the United States. He also emerged with pitmasters in a location within the camping tent established to look like a backyard barbecue. Sign up for our Festival Pass newsletter. Whether you are a Coachella lifer or choose to view from afar, get weekly dispatches throughout the Southern California music celebration season. Subscribe here. Fieri included headliners to the mix in 2019, making Guy Fieri's Stagecoach Smokehouse a place to be seen. Pardi looked for the experience, telling the Southern California News Group last fall," Man, Guy is amazing. I would definitely do some barbecue with him. ". This year, Fieri looks more like a star destination in his own right with a bigger tent for barbecue concessions and a bigger performance area on one end. It is flanked by 2 huge

screens and even his own DJ spinning classic rock during and between programs. The exact same space is utilized to house the Indio Central Market during Stagecoach's huge sibling fest, Coachella. The setup consisted of a barbecue pits tended by members of Operation BBQ, a relief organization that feeds victims of natural catastrophes. They can be seen hanging pork ribs from hooks above burning charcoal. The fragrance is gotten by misters turned on the audience, infusing the wet air with smoke. Fieri is working from a wooden deck in front of a commercial kitchen area trailer painted like camouflage and emblazoned with his logo designs. On the very first day, he made his look bring a bag of Kingsford charcoal into his work area.

Fieri is doing 3 reveals a day, and he set the tone at the start of the first one on Friday, an exceptionally hot day with temperature levels going well above 100 degrees. Fieri kicks them off by honoring military, veterans and very first responders.

During the latest program on Friday with ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Fieri handed band members cups of tequila and raised a toast. For the other 2 programs, Fieri drafts musicians into assisting him build outrageous foods. Fieri sliced up the burrito and Pardi and his band handed out samples to some of the people leaning on the rail.