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The Global Citizen Festival is an annual music festival held in Central Park, started in 2012 and organized by Global Citizen. The festival was founded by Ryan Gall and Hugh Evans. Gall said he was inspired by visiting Austin City Limits and seeing the branding on the stage, but wanting to replace the corporate branding with branding from charities. Since 2015, Coldplay lead vocalist Chris Martin has served as the festival's curator.
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New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States. It is located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island—each being coextensive with its respective county. It is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area.
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OCEAN CITY, MD (CelebrityAccess) — A powerful September nor’easter forced the cancellation of several major East Coast music festivals over the weekend, including Oceans Calling in Maryland and Global Citizen, All Things Go NYC and
CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan (PIX11) – It has never happened in 14 years. The Global Citizen Festival in Central Park has been canceled because of the nor’easter. Work crews were busy dismantling the stage Friday night. Close to 60,000 people attend the Global Citizen Festival each year in Central Park and in 2023 it was…
The storm forced major festival cancellations, triggered flooding and prompted a state of emergency across New York City