With six months to go before ‘This Is Halloween’ starts playing everywhere, I went to Coachella in Indio, CA to watch Nightmare Before Christmas’ Danny Elfman—the legendary composer of such scores as Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and most of Tim Burton’s catalog—perform. If there was ever a year that I was going to attend the festival, it was this one, and I was able to through press credentials.Coachella is known for being eclectic with its artist curation across all music genres, and Elfman joined the likes of Hans Zimmer, whose scores played in 2017.
