The Global Citizen Festival Rocked The Great Lawn In Central Park In New York City

What A Great Concert And Cause To Support

THE GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL packed the GREAT LAWN in CENTRAL PARK in NEW YORK CITY beginning at 4p on SATURDAY (9/28) to raise money to end poverty.

The stream was powered by JOHNSON & JOHNSON and was viewable at iHEARTRADIO, MSNBC, TWITTER, and YOUTUBE, and featured the talents of QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT, ONEREPUBLIC, PHARRELL WILLIAMS, ALICIA KEYS, FRENCH MONTANA, BEN PLAT, H.E.R., CAROLE KING, JON BATISTE & STAY HUMAN, DAVID GRAY and NCT 127 among many others who all played for free for more than 60,000 Global Citizen attendees.

And, look at the star-studded lineup of co-hosts: ELVIS DURAN, HUGH JACKMAN, MATT BOMER, CONNIE BRITTON, RACHEL BROSNAHAN, NINA DOBREV,  BECKY G, TARAJI P. HENSON, DAKOTA JOHNSON, BECKY LYNCH, AASIF MANDVI, RAMI MALEK, BRIDGET MOYNAHAN, BILL NYE, KAL PENN, JOY REID, ERIN RICHARDS, SETH ROLLINS and FOREST WHITAKER.

The platform has a goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030. It has an agenda of educating global citizens about the systemic causes of extreme poverty, having them address those issues as part of a global community committed to lasting change for a positive impact on more than 2.5 billion people.

The festival's goals this year include calling on companies to procure at least $100 million of their products and services from women-owned businesses and encouraging our government to enact the "KEEPING GIRLS IN SCHOOL ACT," which focuses on increasing access to sanitary products in schools.

This weekend's successful event was a lead-in to next year's 10-hour, globally broadcast, multi-location concert on SEPTEMBER. 26, 2020, as part of a year-long initiative titled, “GLOBAL GOAL LIVE: THE POSSIBLE DREAM.” 

Next year's globally broadcast event will cover five continents, again, taking place in New York, with performances set for NIGERIA, and other countries to be announced in LATIN AMERICA, EUROPE, and ASIA.

The 2020 lineup already includes: BILLIE EILISH, METALLICA, LIZZO, COLDPLAY, SHAWN MENDES, JANELLE MONÁE, MILEY CYRUS, ALICIA KEYS and many others.

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