British folk-rock band Mumford & Sons were announced Friday as a last-minute addition to the Stagecoach Music Festival, playing that same day on the Palomino Stage before Lana Del Rey’s previously announced set.

The band will play 6:55 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. with Del Rey following them from 8:10 p.m. to 9:10 p.m.

Mumford & Sons, which released its fifth album “Rushmere” in March, recently announced a summer tour that includes a stop at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on June 12.

Despite the band’s British roots, its music has often shared a kinship with the Americana genre, with close harmony vocals often accompanied by acoustic guitar, banjo, double bass and fiddles.

Mumford & Sons formed in London in 2007 – the Rushmere of the new album’s title was the pub where the members met and performed in those earliest day. Its 2009 debut, “Sigh No More,” included the American and English hit singles “Little Lion Man” and “The Cave,” and reached No. 2 on the album charts in both the United States and United Kingdom.

In 2011, Mumford & Sons played the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, making the Friday lineup on the Palomino Stage all veterans of both Coachella and Stagecoach. Lana Del Rey, who plays after Mumford & Sons at Stagecoach tonight headlined Coachella in 2024. T-Pain, who plays after here, played Coachella earlier this month.

Marcus Mumford, the band’s singer-guitarist, also has a special connection to Southern California. He was born at an Anaheim hospital in 1987, where his parents lived in Yorba Linda and worked as leaders in the international Vineyard Churches, though the family moved back to the United Kingdom before his first birthday.

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