Global Citizen Festival
| Global Citizen Festival | |
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| Dates | Every September |
| Location(s) | Central Park, New York (New York, New York) |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Founded by | Global Citizen |
| Website | |
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The Global Citizen Festival is an annual music festival established in 2012. Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, is the current creative director of the event, and he will fulfill this role for the next 15 years.[1] The event was created in 2015 to mark the establishment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a "to-do list" of 17 tasks to end extreme global poverty by the year 2030.[1]
Efforts
The Global Citizen Music Festival is a continued effort to end extreme poverty by 2030, as proposed by the United Nationals Sustainable Developmental Goals. By contributing to charity acts on the website, including watching videos and signing petitions, people can get free tickets to the festival. In addition, organizers are striving to make the event global through a live-streaming in public locations.
Years
2012
The 2012 Global Citizen Music Festival was on Saturday, September 29, 2012. The headliners were the Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, John Legend, Band of Horses, K'naan, and Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
2013
The 2013 Global Citizen Music Festival was on September 28, 2013. The headliners were Stevie Wonder, Kings of Leon, Alicia Keys, and John Mayer. The event's major themes for the year were education, women's equality, global health, and global partnerships.
2014
The 2014 line-up was Alicia Keys playing a special piece of music for the show along with a Palestinian and a Jewish artist. The band fun., The Roots, Carrie Underwood, No Doubt - joined by Sting for a song, Jay Z - his set featured two duets with Beyoncé.
2015
The 2015 festival, which was held on Central Park's Great Lawn in New York City on Saturday, September 26, included performances by Beyoncé (joined by Ed Sheeran for "Drunk in Love"), Coldplay (joined by Ariana Grande for "Just a Little Bit of Your Heart"), Pearl Jam (joined by Beyoncé for "Redemption Song"), and Ed Sheeran (Joined by Chris Martin for "Thinking Out Loud"). Special appearances and speakers included Stephen Colbert, Hugh Jackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Vice President Joe Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama. The show was broadcast live on MSNBC in the U.S. The Hong Kong free-to-air tv channel TVB Pearl aired the festival on the first day of Jan. 2016. An edited one-hour special aired on NBC in the U.S. on September 27 and the BBC One in the UK on September 28. The edited version also aired in Australia on September 30, on the Nine Network[2]
