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A number of music stars including Metallica, Mariah Carey and the Jonas Brothers will feature in a concert in New York Central Park in September in an event marking the 10th anniversary of the Global Citizen Festival organized by the international nonprofit fighting extreme poverty, The Associated Press reports.
The September
24 event will also feature similar concerts around the world in places such as
Accra, Ghana featuring User, SZA and H.E.R.
Global
Citizen CEO Hugh Evans said in a statement that the event would not just be a
celebration but a call to action to immediately address numerous international crises.
“We are
actually at one critical inflection point where COVID has pushed nearly 100
million people into extreme poverty and now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has
made the situation so much worse,” he said, according to The Associated Press.
“As many as 323 million people are now facing acute hunger. And if we don’t
take urgent action now, as many as 200 million more people are likely to be
plunged into extreme poverty by November, bringing the total number of people
living in extreme poverty to over a billion people again.”
How much is Global Citizen New York music concert tickets?
Tickets to
the concerts are free but participants must join Global Citizen and take action
on a series of the organization’s campaign issues, according to The Associated
Press.
Which artists will perform at Global Citizen New York Music concert?
Other stars
billed to perform in Central Park are -Pop star Charlie Puth, Latin sensation
Rosalia, country star Mickey Guyton and Italian rockers Maneskin, while rapper
Stormzy, Nigerian singer-songwriter Tems and Ghanian stars Gyakie, Sarkodie and
Stonebwoy will also perform in Accra, according to The Associated Press.
The two concerts will be broadcast and streamed on ABC, ABC News Live, FX, Hulu, iHeartRadio, Twitter, YouTube, etc. On September 25 ABC will broadcast a primetime special, “Global Citizen Festival: Take Action NOW,” according to The Associated Press.
What would Global Citizen achieve with NYC music concert?
Global
Citizen said it would use the celebration to encourage fans to seek more action
from government in fighting hunger and poverty.
The group
wants the United States to donate $500 million in grants to farmers in Africa
to enable them grow more crops instead of relying heavily on grain and
fertilizer from Ukraine and Russia locked up in bitter territorial battles.
“We also
need to address the reality that supporting women and girls around the world
and their talents are the closest we have to a silver bullet for the
eradication of poverty,” Evans said, according to The Associated Press. “We’re
calling on the wealthiest nations to provide $600 million dollars in critical
investments into education, sexual and reproductive health and economic
empowerment for them.”
Global
Citizen claims it has targeted more than 1.15 billion people in its $41.4
billion campaign towards fighting poverty and extreme hunger around the world
since its first festival in 2012.