46-495: The Global Citizen Festival is an annual music festival started in 2012 and organized by Global Poverty Project . It 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. In 2015, the organization announced that Coldplay lead vocalist Chris Martin would serve as
92-720: A capacity of about 275,000 spectators, but has " fallow years " roughly every five years, so it is the biggest non-annual greenfield festival in the world. The oldest annual dedicated pop music festival in the world is Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands , though in other genres, there are much older ones: the Three Choirs Festival in the UK has run annually since 1719. The Queensland Music Festival, established in 1999 and headquartered in Brisbane Australia,
138-567: A debate whether the festival should have had more security or lack of help from the security and SAPS. The main 2019 festival took place on September 28 at Central Park's Great Lawn in New York City, with Queen + Adam Lambert , Pharrell Williams , Alicia Keys , OneRepublic , H.E.R. , and Carole King headlining, and French Montana , Ben Platt , Jon Batiste and Stay Human , David Gray , and NCT 127 as special guest performers. Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness returned to host
184-410: A form of seasonal, cultural festivity, structured around a schedule of music performances, or concerts. Music festivals generally feature regular and extensive programming, than more spontaneous or improvised forms of music festivity. In traditional genres such as folk and classical music, a music festival can be defined as a community event , with performances of singing and instrument playing, that
230-551: A knee in solidarity with the U.S. national anthem protests . The main 2018 festival was held at Central Park's Great Lawn in New York City on September 29 and was headlined by Janet Jackson , The Weeknd , Shawn Mendes , Cardi B and Janelle Monáe , with John Legend being a special guest performer. Some of the notable hosts and presenters were Hugh Jackman , Deborra-lee Furness , Danai Gurira , Chris Martin , Naomi Campbell , Dakota Johnson , Robert De Niro , New York Governor Andrew Cuomo , and U.S. Sen. Chris Coons . During
276-451: A manifestation for creating escapism and a seasonal cultural economy to experience ritually and collectively. Another type of music festival is the music education , often organized annually in local communities, regionally, or nationally, for the benefit of amateur musicians of all ages and grades of achievement. Entrants perform prepared pieces or songs in front of an audience which includes competitors, family and friends, and members of
322-465: A song, and Jay Z – whose set featured two duets with Beyoncé . The event was hosted by Hugh Jackman , alongside presenters Dianna Agron , Zachary Quinto and Erin Heatherton . Speakers at the event included Queen Silvia of Sweden , Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi , Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg and US President Barack Obama via a pre-recorded video. The 2015 festival, which
368-550: A specific charitable cause . At music festivals associated with charitable causes, there may be information about social or political issues . The Pythian Games at Delphi included musical performances, and may be one of the earliest festivals known. During the Middle Ages , festivals were often held as competitions. The music festival emerged in England in the 18th century, as an extension of urban concert life into
414-414: A unique image for it and attracting visitors. For example, Lollapalooza, Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, Ultra Music Festival, Electric Forest, and others. While contemporary festivals are often represented as flourishing grounds for extraordinary experiences, they increasingly serve as a way to create cultural identity, lifestyle, community, belonging and self-actualisation. Furthermore, festivals are
460-791: Is named after her brother. She attended grammar school in Düsseldorf , finishing her Abitur in 1963; and attended the Munich School of Interpreting from 1965 to 1969, majoring in Spanish. She has some fluency in Swedish Sign Language , a national sign language used by the deaf community in Sweden. She is a trained interpreter and Swedish is her sixth language. She speaks her native German, her mother's language of Portuguese, as well as French, Spanish, and English. During
506-403: Is often presented with a theme such as a music genre (e.g., blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality , locality of musicians, or holiday . Music festivals have developed as an industry which contributes to national economies. For example, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival earned $ 115 million in 2017. Music festivals can be a way of building a brand for a destination, creating
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#1732781182544552-572: Is that participants can learn from one another rather than compete. Such festivals aim to provide a friendly and supportive platform for musicians to share in the excitement of making music. For many, they provide a bridge from lessons and examinations to performing confidently in public; for a few of the top performers, they provide a pathway to further professional study of music in a college, university or conservatory. Milwaukee , Wisconsin 's 11-day event, Summerfest , promotes itself as "The World's Largest Music Festival." Operating annually since 1968,
598-523: Is the largest music festival by land mass, as a state-wide music biennial music festival, over a three-week period during July. Lists of music festivals in: Queen Silvia of Sweden Silvia (born Silvia Renate Sommerlath ; 23 December 1943) is Queen of Sweden as the wife of King Carl XVI Gustaf . She has held this title since her marriage to Carl Gustaf in 1976. The king and queen have three children: Crown Princess Victoria , Prince Carl Philip , and Princess Madeleine . Silvia Renate Sommerlath
644-573: The 1972 Summer Olympics , Sommerlath met Crown Prince Carl Gustaf. At the time, she was leading a marketing campaign for the city of Munich. Sommerlath and the other Olympic hostesses wore sky-blue dirndls to promote Bavarian cultural identity. After the death of King Gustaf VI Adolf on 15 September 1973, Carl XVI Gustaf succeeded to the throne. He and Sommerlath announced their engagement on 12 March 1976 and were married three months later on 19 June 1976 in Stockholm Cathedral . It
690-575: The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in the United States were announced at the festival. Music festival A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock , blues , folk , jazz , classical music ), nationality , locality of musicians, or holiday . Music festivals are generally organized by individuals or organizations within networks of music production, typically music scenes,
736-588: The COVID-19 pandemic , the 2020 festival was cancelled. It was replaced with One World: Together at Home , a benefit concert that was organized by Global Citizen in support of the World Health Organization . It was televised live worldwide. The special was intended to promote the practice of social distancing while staying together during the pandemic. Various singers performed live from their homes, and various celebrities appeared and hosted
782-529: The Global Child Forum , which she helped initiate, as a keynote speaker in several forums. Her commitment to the work with dementia and the care of the elderly at the end of life is also well known and respected. On her initiative, Silviahemmet was established in Stockholm. It works to educate hospital personnel in how to work with people suffering from dementia, and also initiates research in
828-688: The United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime , the Organization of American States , and the Council of Europe . She is now an honorary board member of Mentor Foundation . She was also a co-founder of the World Childhood Foundation in 1999, having been inspired by her work as Patron of the first World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children held in Stockholm. She has also been involved in
874-524: The CEO of TV4 , the network that had aired a documentary about her father's alleged Nazi past. Queen Silvia commissioned a report from World War II expert Erik Norberg, a choice that was criticised due to Norberg having ties to the royal family. In his report, Norberg said that the Queen's father had in fact helped the owner of the steel-fabrication plant, a Jewish businessperson, escape from Germany by taking over
920-567: The Global Citizen Festival when he met festival co-founder Hugh Evans at Columbia University at a conference and proposed the idea of holding a festival on the Great Lawn of Central Park . The pair later approached concert promoter Goldenvoice to launch the festival in 2012. Gall says the inspiration for the festival came from visiting Austin City Limits and seeing the branding on each stage but wanting to replace
966-588: The Queen became the subject of international curiosity when an article published in the syndicalist newspaper Arbetaren reported that German state archives recorded that the Queen's father, Walther Sommerlath , joined the Nazi party's foreign wing, the NSDAP/AO , in 1934, when he was living in Brazil and working for a German steel company. In December 2010, Queen Silvia wrote a letter of complaint to Jan Scherman ,
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#17327811825441012-522: The community, along with one or more adjudicators or judges. These adjudicators, who may be music teachers, professors, or professional performers, provide verbal and written feedback to each performer or group. The adjudicator may be someone whom they might never meet in any other way, as is the case when an adjudicator from another city is brought in to judge. They also usually receive a certificate, classified according to merit or ranking, and some may win trophies or even scholarships. The most important aspect
1058-528: The concert included the first mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz , Justin Trudeau , Erna Solberg , Mauricio Macri , and Sigmar Gabriel . The event was broadcast live on the Global Citizen Festival's YouTube channel. During the event, Argentinian president Mauricio Macri announced that the Global Citizen Festival would be invited to the 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit . The main 2017 festival was held at Central Park's Great Lawn in New York City on September 23 and
1104-560: The corporate branding with branding from charities. Tickets to the festival are distributed through a lottery system with festival-goers performing actions on Global Citizen's website, globalcitizen.org (which Gall co-founded), for a chance to attend the event. The festival has taken its model to Australia, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium and Canada and is one of the largest, most visible events drawing attention to sustainability and anti-poverty efforts for young people around
1150-520: The factory. In a December 2011 interview for Sweden's public service broadcaster Sveriges Television , Silvia called the media's handling of the information about her father "character assassination". Queen Silvia established Mentor International in 1994 in collaboration with the World Health Organization . Her vision was to offer mentoring as inspiration, empowerment, and motivation for young people to make healthy life choices and view their futures more positively. Mentor's work has been recognized by
1196-466: The festival alongside Matt Bomer , Connie Britton , Rachel Brosnahan , Leonardo DiCaprio , Nina Dobrev , Elvis Duran , Becky G , Taraji P. Henson , Dakota Johnson , Becky Lynch , Aasif Mandvi , Rami Malek , Greta Thunberg , Bridget Moynahan , Bill Nye , Kal Penn , Natalie Portman , Joy Reid , Erin Richards , Seth Rollins , Savannah Sellers, and Forest Whitaker . Due to the fallout of
1242-686: The festival attracts between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people each year, and hosts over 800 musical acts. The Woodstock Festival in 1969 drew nearly 500,000 attendees, and the Polish spin-off Przystanek Woodstock in 2014 drew 750,000 thus becoming the largest open air annual festival in Europe and the second largest in the world. In comparison, the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, attracts about 135,000 spectators each year. Glastonbury Festival has
1288-502: The festival have been closely aligned with the United Nations ' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which include 17 tasks to end extreme global poverty by 2030. According to Time , Global Citizen's model of ticket distribution in 2017 generated 1.6 million actions in two months, equaling commitments and announcements of $ 3.2 billion for sustainable development and affecting 221 million people. Co-founder Ryan Gall created
1334-634: The festival was held on the eve of the G20 Hamburg summit on July 6. The concert in the Barclaycard Arena was headlined by Coldplay , Shakira , and Herbert Grönemeyer . Other performers and presenters included Pharrell Williams , Ellie Goulding , Demi Lovato , Khatia Buniatishvili , Andreas Bourani , Sido , Lena , Elyas M'Barek , Hadnet Tesfai [ de ] , Nikeata Thompson [ de ] , Barbara Schöneberger , and Linda Zervakis . Appearances of politicians during
1380-406: The festival's curator for the next 15 years. The Global Citizen Festival is part of a movement to end extreme poverty . By contributing to charity acts on the website, including watching videos and signing petitions, fans can get free tickets to the festival. In addition, the organizers are striving to make the event "global" by live-streaming events in public locations. Since 2015, the goals of
1426-423: The festival, a loud noise was heard by some attendees, leading to many believing there was an active shooter, as many ran toward the nearest exit. It was first believed to be as a result of a large police barrier having collapsed, but it was soon revealed to be from someone stepping on and popping a drink bottle. The situation was soon resolved and the festival continued, although some attendees were unable to re-enter
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1472-511: The keynote address for the event, which served as the culmination of Mandela 100, Global Citizen's collaboration with the House of Mandela. The Johannesburg show was marred by violence as many concertgoers were robbed and assaulted outside the venue by armed attackers, allegedly due to a total lack of police and security presence. Twitter users reported that SAPS had not given them the help they needed though they were asked multiple times. It caused
1518-487: The music industries, or institutions of music education. Music festivals are commonly held outdoors, with tents or roofed temporary stages for the performers. Often music festivals host other attractions such as food and merchandise vending, dance, crafts, performance art , and social or cultural activities. Many festivals are annual, or repeat at some other interval, while some are held only once. Some festivals are organized as for-profit concerts and others are benefits for
1564-750: The park for the festival and a few dozen were injured. It was announced that a festival would take place on December 2 in the FNB Stadium , Johannesburg , South Africa, that would celebrate the life's work and lasting legacy of Nelson Mandela for his 100th birthday. Beyoncé and Jay-Z headlined the festival, followed by performances from Cassper Nyovest , Chris Martin , Kacey Musgraves , Pharrell Williams , Eddie Vedder , Ed Sheeran , D'banj , Femi Kuti , Sho Madjozi , Tiwa Savage , Usher and Wizkid . Presenters included Naomi Campbell , Bob Geldof , Gayle King , Tyler Perry , Trevor Noah , Forest Whitaker and Bonang Matheba . Oprah Winfrey delivered
1610-591: The show. Lady Gaga curated the special. The 2021 event took place concurrently in multiple cities around the world, including Lagos, Seoul, Paris, New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, London, Mumbai, and Sydney, on September 25–26. The main 2022 festival took place on September 24 at Central Park 's Great Lawn in New York City, with Metallica , Charlie Puth , the Jonas Brothers , Måneskin , Mariah Carey , Mickey Guyton and Rosalía headlining and Priyanka Chopra Jonas hosting. A parallel edition
1656-489: The world. The Global Citizen Music Festival was first held in New York City on September 29, 2012. The headliners included the Foo Fighters , The Black Keys , John Legend , Band of Horses , K'naan , and Neil Young & Crazy Horse . In its second year, the festival was held on September 28, 2013. The headliners included Stevie Wonder , Kings of Leon , Alicia Keys , and John Mayer . The event's major themes for
1702-524: The year were education , women's equality , global health, and global partnerships. The event was produced by Anschutz Entertainment Group and Diversified Production Services, with Ticketmaster serving as the event's ticketing partner. In 2014, the festival was held on September 27. The line-up included Alicia Keys playing a special piece of music for the show along with Palestinian and Jewish artists. Tiësto opened, followed by Fun , The Roots , Carrie Underwood , No Doubt – joined by Sting for
1748-558: Was born in Heidelberg , Germany, on 23 December 1943, the only daughter of Alice (née Soares de Toledo) and Walther Sommerlath . Her father was German and her mother Brazilian. She has one older brother, Ralf Sommerlath (born 1929). Her other brothers were Walther Sommerlath, who died in 2020, and Jörg Sommerlath, who died in 2006. The Mother-Child House Jörg Sommerlath in Berlin, operated by Queen Silvia's World Childhood Foundation,
1794-688: Was broadcast live on MSNBC in the U.S. The Hong Kong free-to-air TV channel TVB Pearl aired the festival on the first day of January 2016. An edited one-hour special aired on NBC in the U.S. on September 27 and the BBC One in the UK on September 28. The edited version also aired in Australia on September 30, on the Nine Network . The 2016 Global Citizen Canada was held on September 17, 2016, in Montreal, Canada , at Bell Centre . This performance
1840-638: Was headlined by Coldplay and Jay Z . Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi made a short address to the crowd via video conference. Other performers included Demi Lovato , A. R. Rahman , The Vamps , Arijit Singh , Shraddha Kapoor , Sonakshi Sinha , Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy , Monali Thakur , Ranveer Singh . Farhan Akhtar , and Amitabh Bachchan . There were also appearances by Indian film actors Shah Rukh Khan , Parineeti Chopra , Sonam Kapoor , Vidya Balan , Alia Bhatt , Ayushmann Khurrana , and Arjun Kapoor , and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar . In 2017,
1886-424: Was headlined by Stevie Wonder , Green Day , The Killers , The Lumineers , and The Chainsmokers , with special performances by Pharrell Williams , Big Sean , Andra Day , and Alessia Cara . Some of the notable hosts and presenters were Hugh Jackman , Demi Lovato , Jane Goodall , Whoopi Goldberg , Priyanka Chopra , Lupita Nyong'o , Connie Britton , and Camren Bicondova . During his performance, Wonder took
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1932-755: Was held a week before the Global Citizen Festival in New York. The headliners included Usher backed by The Roots , Metric , and Grimes , as well as special guest Half Moon Run , and Charlotte Cardin . There were also special appearances by Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and Bill Gates . The 2016 festival was held on September 24 in New York City at Central Park 's Great Lawn and included performances by headliners Rihanna , Kendrick Lamar , Demi Lovato , Major Lazer , and Metallica , as well as special guests Usher, Coldplay 's Chris Martin , Pearl Jam 's Eddie Vedder , Ellie Goulding , Yandel , and Yusuf / Cat Stevens . Lovato replaced Selena Gomez , who
1978-843: Was held at Black Star Square in Accra , Ghana the same day featuring performances from Usher , SZA , Stormzy , Tems , Uncle Waffles , Gyakie , Sarkodie , and Stonebwoy . Usher also brought three surprise guests onto the stage, Pheelz , Tiwa Savage and Oxlade . The event was hosted by Danai Gurira , alongside presenters Berla Mundi , Joselyn Dumas , Michaela Coel , Nomzamo Mbatha and Sabrina Dhowre Elba . The main 2023 festival took place on September 23 at Central Park 's Great Lawn in New York City, with Red Hot Chili Peppers , Ms. Lauryn Hill , Jung Kook , Anitta , Conan Gray , D-Nice , Sofia Carson and Stray Kids headlining. The main 2024 festival took place on September 28 at Central Park 's Great Lawn in New York City. The venues for
2024-590: Was held on Central Park 's Great Lawn in New York City on September 26, included performances by Beyoncé (joined by Ed Sheeran for "Drunk in Love"), Coldplay (joined by Ariana Grande for "Just a Little Bit of Your Heart"), Pearl Jam (joined by Beyoncé for " Redemption Song "), Ed Sheeran (joined by Chris Martin for "Thinking Out Loud"), and Fall Out Boy . Special appearances and speakers included Stephen Colbert , Hugh Jackman , Leonardo DiCaprio , Vice President Joe Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama . The show
2070-453: Was originally slated to be one of the festival's headliners, but had to pull out of the lineup for health reasons. Special appearances and speakers included Chelsea Handler , Deborra-Lee and Hugh Jackman , Neil Patrick Harris , Priyanka Chopra , Salma Hayek Pinault , and Seth Meyers . The event was broadcast live on MSNBC . The 2016 festival was also hosted in Mumbai , India, where it
2116-476: Was the first marriage of a reigning Swedish monarch since 1797. The wedding was preceded the evening before by a Royal Variety Performance, where the Swedish musical group ABBA performed " Dancing Queen " for the first time as a tribute to Sweden's future queen. The King and Queen have three children: In February 2021, Silvia was taken to hospital after she fractured her right wrist in a fall. In July 2002,
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