{"id":290716,"date":"2026-07-08T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:59:08","slug":"staten-island-elementary-school-chorus-performing-with-coldplay-during-fifa-world-cup-final-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290716\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island elementary school chorus performing with Coldplay during FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gettyimages-2280772957.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">This view shows the New York\/New Jersey Stadium during the 2026 World Cup Group C match between Brazil and Morocco in East Rutherford on June 13, 2026. (Photo by Angela WEISS \/ AFP via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; An <a href=\"https:\/\/fox5ny.com\/tag\/organization\/nyc-schools-organization\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">elementary school<\/a> chorus from <a href=\"https:\/\/fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/staten-island\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Staten Island<\/a> will be performing on the biggest stage in sports later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The P.S. 22 Chorus will perform at the <a href=\"https:\/\/fox5ny.com\/tag\/world-cup\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> Final Halftime Show on July 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Organizers announced the full lineup for the event on Wednesday. Justin Bieber, Madonna, Shakira and BTS will headline the 11-minute show.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Chorus will perform alongside Coldplay. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is curating the performance.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/justin-bieber-joins-madonna-shakira-bts-fifa-world-cup-final-halftime-show\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Justin Bieber joins Madonna, Shakira and BTS for FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The PS22 Chorus is made up of more than 80 fourth and fifth grade students at PS 22 in <a href=\"https:\/\/fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/staten-island\/graniteville\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Graniteville<\/a>, Staten Island. The group has previously performed at the inaugurations of Mayor \u00a0earlier this year and President <a href=\"https:\/\/fox5ny.com\/tag\/people\/barack-obama\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Barack Obama<\/a>, in 2013, and appeared on The View, Sesame Street and more.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783544348_348_world-cup-final-halftime-show-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Chorus Director Gregg Breinberg shared a video on Facebook Wednesday announcing the halftime show lineup with the caption &#8220;We got news!!!!!!!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The World Cup&#8217;s final match is at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, from New York New Jersey Stadium in East Rutherford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story is from FIFA and the PS22 Chorus.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/world-cup\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/staten-island\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Staten Island<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/staten-island\/graniteville\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Graniteville<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/organization\/nyc-schools-organization\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City Public Schools<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article This view shows the New York\/New Jersey Stadium during the 2026 World Cup Group C match between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[111088,9,24,12,56,63,50403,848,134,136,135,618,14771],"class_list":["post-290716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-graniteville","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-schools-organization","tag-organization","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-us","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}