The Global Citizen Festival is an annual music festival started in 2012 and organized by Global Poverty Project. In 2015, the organization announced that Coldplay lead vocalist Chris Martin would serve as the festival's curator for the next 15 years.
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Mission
The Global Citizen Festival is part of a movement to end extreme poverty. By contributing to charity acts on the website, including watching videos and signing petitions, fans can get free tickets to the festival. In addition, the organizers are striving to make the event "global" by live-streaming events in public locations. Since 2015, the goals of the festival have been closely aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which include 17 tasks to end extreme global poverty by 2030.
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History
2012
The Global Citizen Music Festival was first held in New York City on September 29, 2012. The headliners included the Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, John Legend, Band of Horses, K'naan, and Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
2013
In its second year, the festival was held on September 28, 2013. The headliners included 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. The event was produced by Anschutz Entertainment Group and Diversified Production Services, with Ticketmaster serving as the event's ticketing partner.
2014
In 2014, the festival was held on September 27. The line-up included Alicia Keys playing a special piece of music for the show along with Palestinian and Jewish artists. Tiësto opened, followed by Fun, The Roots, Carrie Underwood, No Doubt - joined by Sting for a song, and Jay Z - whose set featured two duets with Beyoncé. The event was hosted by Hugh Jackman, alongside presenters Dianna Agron, Zachary Quinto and Erin Heatherton. Speakers at the event included Queen Silvia of Sweden, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg and US President Barack Obama via a pre-recorded video.
2015
The 2015 festival, which was held on Central Park's Great Lawn in New York City on 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.
2016
The 2016 festival was held on September 24 in New York City at Central Park's Great Lawn and included performances by headliners Demi Lovato, Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Major Lazer, and Metallica, as well as special guests Usher, Coldplay's Chris Martin, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Ellie Goulding, Yandel, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens. Lovato replaced Selena Gomez, who was originally slated to be one of the festival's headliners, but had to pull out of the lineup for mental health reasons. Special appearances and speakers included Chelsea Handler, Deborra-Lee and Hugh Jackman, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra, Salma Hayek Pinault, and Seth Meyers. The event was broadcast live on MSNBC.
In addition, the 2016 festival was also hosted in Mumbai, India, where it was headlined by Coldplay and Jay Z. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi made a short address to the crowd via video conference. Other performers included Demi Lovato, A. R. Rahman, The Vamps, Arijit Singh, Shraddha Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Ranveer Singh. Farhan Akhtar, and Amitabh Bachchan. There were also appearances by Indian film actors Shah Rukh Khan, Parineeti Chopra, Ayushmann Khurrana, and Arjun Kapoor, and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.
2017
In 2017, the festival was held on the eve of the G20 Hamburg summit on July 6. The concert in the Barclaycard Arena was headlined by Coldplay, Shakira, and Herbert Grönemeyer. Other performers and presenters included Pharrell Williams, Ellie Goulding, Demi Lovato, Khatia Buniatishvili, Andreas Bourani, Sido, Lena, Elyas M'Barek, Hadnet Tesfai, Nikeata Thompson, Barbara Schöneberger, and Linda Zervakis. Appearances of politicians during the concert included the first mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz, Justin Trudeau, Erna Solberg, Mauricio Macri, and Sigmar Gabriel. The event was broadcast live on the Global Citizen Festival's YouTube channel. During the event, Argentinian president Mauricio Macri announced that the Global Citizen Festival will be invited to the 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit.
The main 2017 festival was held at Central Park's Great Lawn in New York City on September 23 and was headlined by Stevie Wonder, Green Day, The Killers, The Lumineers, and The Chainsmokers, with special performances by Pharrell Williams, Big Sean, Andra Day, and Alessia Cara. Some of the notable hosts and presenters were Hugh Jackman, Demi Lovato, Jane Goodall, Whoopi Goldberg, Priyanka Chopra, Lupita Nyong'o, Connie Britton, and Camren Bicondova. During his performance, Wonder took a knee in solidarity with the U.S. national anthem protests.
References
External links
- Official website
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