This year’s Global Citizen festival has assembled heavy hitters from the worlds of pop, R&B, country, Latin, rock, Afropop and heavy metal.
For its 10th anniversary, the humanitarian-focused music event has two star-studded concerts happening on Sept. 24; one in its usual location of New York City’s Central Park and the other in Accra, Ghana.
Mariah Carey, Metallica, Jonas Brothers, Mickey Guyton, Rosalia and Maneskin will headline the New York City concert, which will be hosted by actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas, a Global Citizen Ambassador, organizers announced Thursday.
For the international lineup taking place at the African country’s Black Star Square, Usher, H.E.R., SZA, Stormzy and TEMS will headline. The event will mark Accra’s 65th anniversary of independence and its 20th anniversary of the African union.
The annual Global Citizen concert is geared to help raise awareness around famine, climate change and other inequities worldwide. This year, Global Citizen is specifically asking world leaders attending the United National General Assembly to invest $600 million to the future of women and girls worldwide, to close the annual $10 billion climate financing shortfall and to aid African farmers with $500 million to help respond to the global food crisis.
“Decades of systemic and political failures have led humanity into the midst of converging and rapidly deteriorating crises — climate, hunger, health, war and conflict,” the organization’s co-founder and CEO Hugh Evans said in Thursday’s announcement. “The most marginalized populations are paying the price of the stagnant inaction of our leaders, and now millions of lives, and the future of our planet, are at stake. We refuse to just stand by and watch!”
Tickets to the concerts are free, and can be earned by downloading the Global Citizen app or visiting GlobalCitizen.org and taking action on a series of the campaign’s issues.
Both concerts will be broadcast and streamed on ABC, ABC News Live, FX, Hulu, Twitter, YouTube and other outlets.
ABC will air a primetime special, “Global Citizen Festival: Take Action Now,” on Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. EDT.
