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. Due to the extreme weather forecast for New York City in September 2026, Global Citizen made the difficult decision, in consultation with the City of New York and NYC Parks, to cancel this year’s Global Citizen Festival.

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