Global Citizen Festival to Bring Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Megan Thee Stallion to Central Park
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The Global Citizen Festival will return to Central Park Sept. 23 for another ticketed-but-free concert, with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ms.
Lauryn Hill set as the day’s headliners. Megan Thee Stallion, Conan Gray and Stray Kids are also on the day’s bill. As always, tickets to the show on the Great Lawn are free, but require fulfilling a task as part of the international advocacy organization Global Citizen’s initiative to raise awareness about hunger, poverty, climate change and inequities facing women around the world, among pressing related concerns.
The broadcast component will be produced by Done and Dusted; broadcast partners have not yet been announced. The show is being presented by by Citi and Cisco.
The concert and its surrounding initiatives are timed to impact a September gathering in New York of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.
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