Post Malone, Doja Cat, Jelly Roll and Rauw Alejandro will present the music on the 2024 Global Citizen Festival, a live performance set to kick off New York’s musical autumn on Sept. 28. The annual gathering can be held, as all the time, on Central Park’s Nice Garden, with free tickets obtainable by utilizing World Citizen’s app to take motion towards one of many advocacy group’s key missions.
Hugh Jackman is about to host, with Coldplay’s Chris Martin — a longtime buddy of World Citizen — and Jane Goodall due for particular appearances. Extra performers past the aforementioned 4 are as a result of be introduced in weeks to return.
World Citizen’s lineups are usually as numerous as doable, to attract in as many alternative demographics as within reason doable to be uncovered to the org’s motion plans for ending poverty, growing fairness and combating local weather change. This 12 months, there’s arguably a little bit of overlap, with Jelly Roll being a rustic star and Put up Malone being a sometimes-country star — however usually these headliners usher in distinct audiences.
Final 12 months, the 2023 invoice was led by the Pink Scorching Chili Peppers, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Jung Kook. The World Citizen Pageant started in 2012, and it was introduced in 2015 that Chris Martin would function its curator for the next 15 years. As much as 60,000 folks attend the annual reveals.
Stated Doja Cat in an announcement, “It’s been a number of years since I used to be final on the World Citizen Pageant stage in Paris, and I’m excited to affix forces with World Citizen as soon as once more in Central Park this September to drive as a lot motion as we will to make the world a greater place. All of us have a component we will play to assist finish excessive poverty and arise for fairness. I’m wanting ahead to being a part of this main night of constructive change.”
Tickets could be earned by utilizing the Global Citizen app or logging on at globalcitizenfestival.com to ship messages to governments and personal sector leaders advocating for insurance policies that may assist among the world’s most endangered communities.
The 2024 World Citizen Pageant is being produced by Diversified Manufacturing Companies. Dwell Nation is its manufacturing companion, iHeartMedia is the unique home audio companion, and New York Metropolis Parks is the placement companion. Citi and Cisco are the competition presenters.
There are three “pressing motion” objects on World Citizen’s agenda. Below the heading of “Defeat Poverty,” the org is looking on the G7 international locations (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the U.Okay. and the U.S.) to extend their help for worldwide anti-poverty applications, together with considerably elevated contributions to the Worldwide Improvement Affiliation (IDA), the World Financial institution’s fund devoted to defeating poverty within the 75 lowest-income international locations on the planet. “Defend the Planet” includes a name for companies, philanthropic foundations and governments to take a position $1 billion in defending the Amazon rainforest, with a few of that earmarked for the indigenous communities which are greatest ready to do this, beneath the conviction that this forestry is crucial to slowing local weather change. And “Demand Fairness” requires entry for the poor to nutritious meals, healthcare programs and schooling.
For the competition, World Citizen is aligning with nonprofits from throughout New York’s 5 boroughs in addition to the companions in its worldwide community.
