John Mayer, Alicia Keys, Kings of Leon, and Stevie Wonder are set to headline the Global Citizens Festival in New York on September 28.
Global Citizen is working to bring an end to extreme poverty. The concert is an opportunity to learn about issues and “find opportunities to support campaigns and organizations creating sustainable change,” Global Citizen website said.
The four acts are performing without compensation to support eliminating poverty globally Rolling Stone reports.
“These four headlining artists are willing to play for free because they believe this generation wants to see the end of extreme poverty,” Co-founder and CEO of Global Poverty Projects, Hugh Evans said.
This is the second annual Global Citizens Festival. Last year Neil Young, Foo Fighters, the Black Keys, John Legend, K’Naan, and Band of Horses performed. Over 60,000 people attended and happened at the same time the annual United Nations General Assembly Meeting. It put pressure on the world leaders through the media and fundraising as well. The results were over $1.3 billion in funding to fight poverty.
“We want to encourage people who go involved last year to continue to take their involvement to a whole new level. Our principle objective is to enable people to take action,” Evans said.
Free tickets are available to those who qualify. Watching videos, signing petitions and buying merchandise are ways to earn points. The festival will also be streaming live. “Live sites” will be setup in cities worldwide. The Cities will be announced at a later date Billboard reports.
“We’ll have local performers at those live sites,” Evans said.
The even is presented by the Cotton On Foundation and produced by AEG Live and Diversified Production Services. Other supporters include Kidnected World, Hewlett-Packard, Pratt Foundation, FedEx, Coca-Cola, the Color run and Riot House.
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