Mariah Carey and Metallica rock Central Park at Global Citizen Festival

nypost.com:

The 10th edition of the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park — which first served as a fall music celebration on the Great Lawn in 2012 — began with the Jonas Brothers on Saturday night.It was fitting that those Jersey boys would kick off this year’s event — on the most perfect of early fall days, with not a cloud in the sky over Central Park.

The Global Citizen Festival has come to signify not only the end of summer and the beginning of fall — but a renewal of all the ways that music can lift up our spirits and souls even in the most trying of times, whether you were chanting “Jonas!” or rocking a Metallica t-shirt.And the Jonas Brothers were the perfect way to start the festivities, which also just so happened to be hosted by Pryianka Chopra Jonas — the wife and baby mama of the youngest JoBro, Nick.Having such a major Indian star as Chopra Jonas host the event reminded all the New Yorkers on the Great Lawn that this was bigger than us — and this year’s festival had more of an international presence than ever before.Spanish sensation Rosalia, Italian glam rockers Maneskin and African queen Angelique Kidjo all took part.

This year’s festivities were all held in conjunction with another Global Citizen Festival in Ghana that featured Usher, H.E.R.

and SZA.Still, give it up to the local Jonas Brothers — the heartthrobs with all the hair lushness— for delivering one of the most crowd-pleasing sets of a night that also included such heavy-hitters as Metallica and Mariah Carey.