{"id":322358,"date":"2026-08-16T01:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322358\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T01:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:47:25","slug":"ms-lauryn-hill-on-the-lineup-for-global-citizen-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322358\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Lauryn Hill on the lineup for Global Citizen Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers have unveiled the star-studded lineup for this year\u2019s Global Citizen Festival, set for Saturday, Sept. 26 on Central Park\u2019s Great Lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean will perform to mark the 30th anniversary of The Fugees\u2019 album \u201cThe Score,\u201d Global Citizen said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey and K-pop band TOMORROW X TOGETHER are also set to take the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will be hosted by\u00a0Hugh Jackman, with appearances by\u00a0Rachel Brosnahan, Gayle King and other yet-to-be-announced guests.<\/p>\n<p>Global Citizen Festival is an annual music festival that highlights international challenges and urges attendees to take action to address them.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s festival aims to combat extreme poverty, improve educational access for children, support small farmers and broaden access to electricity in homes, according to organizers. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Would-be attendees will be able to enter a free ticket lottery after taking action on various causes via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/app\/download\/?utm_source=referral_pressrelease&amp;utm_medium=traditional_media&amp;utm_campaign=global_powerourplanet_sitesignup&amp;utm_content=ctasignup_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Global Citizen app<\/a> \u2014 or make a $25 charitable donation to get a ticket, organizers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll donations will give back to New York City. Funds raised will go to City Parks Foundation to support their free programming and community engagement initiatives in parks across all five boroughs, as well as to organizations helping those experiencing homelessness across the city,\u201d Global Citizen said in its release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTickets available through this option are limited, and the majority of Festival tickets will continue to be available for free by taking action through the Global Citizen app,\u201d the release added.<\/p>\n<p>The festival comes on the heels of the Global Citizen-produced FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show, which the organization said helped raise $60 million for the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organizers have unveiled the star-studded lineup for this year\u2019s Global Citizen Festival, set for Saturday, Sept. 26 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[472,25,128,157,9,24,12,63,73913,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":["post-322358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-arts-entertainment","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-entertainment","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-sarah-ng","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322358","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=322358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}