Lauryn Hill and Megan Thee Stallion are among the A-listers who will be performing at this year’s Global Citizen Festival in New York City.
On Tuesday (July 11), Global Citizen announced that it will be returning this autumn. The free, ticketed event is part of the organization’s larger “mission to drive critical efforts to End Extreme Poverty NOW: For the Planet, For Equity, For Food, and For Jobs.”
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The single-day gathering will feature five artists: Ms. Lauryn Hill, Megan Thee Stallion, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Conan Gray and Stray Kids. It will take place at Central Park’s Great Lawn on September 23.
In 2021, Hill performed at the festival with the Fugees to kickstart a reunion trek that was eventually cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, the trio did get back together and share the stage for a surprise performance at the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia earlier this year.
🚨This just in: #GlobalCitizenFestival is happening 9.23.23! @ChiliPeppers, @MsLaurynHill, @theestallion, @conangray, & @Stray_Kids will be joining us on Central Park’s Great Lawn for an unforgettable night of music and ACTION! pic.twitter.com/kHi09b2YkR
— Global Citizen ⭕ (@GlblCtzn) July 11, 2023
The Global Citizen Festival is “a campaign that will unite millions of voices, amplified by the world’s biggest artists, to demand urgent action from world leaders gathering in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly in September.”
Elaborating on their purpose, the organization’s website shared: “For the first time in a generation, the number of people living in extreme poverty is rising. The impacts of the climate crisis on the Global South, the inequities affecting women and girls around the world, the global hunger crisis, and the shrinking of civic space around the world; such colossal issues require a worldwide movement of people demanding change. Luckily, we know a thing or two about enacting that kind of transformational change.”
In other NYC festival news, Joey Bada$$, Jazmine Sullivan and Flying Lotus are some of the heavy-hitters scheduled to perform at this year’s AFROPUNK festival in Brooklyn.
The annual arts festival will make its way back to New York City on August 26 and 27, but with a few alterations. The two-day event will no longer occupy Commodore Barry Park and instead take over Greenpoint Terminal Market.
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Additionally, the gathering will be held together by a theme: “CIRCUS OF SOUL – transforming the riverside blacktop into a carnivalesque exhibition that spotlights all aspects of Black creativity, soundtracked by music that speaks to the heart of the Black experience.”
