{"id":356923,"date":"2026-09-25T18:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356923\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:28:14","slug":"global-citizen-festival-canceled-due-to-extreme-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356923\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Citizen Festival Canceled Due to ‘Extreme Weather Forecast’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This weekend\u2019s Global Citizen<\/a> festival at New York\u2019s Central Park has been canceled due to potentially severe weather in northeast U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDue to the extreme weather forecast for New York City this weekend, we have made the difficult decision, in consultation with the City of New York and NYC Parks, to cancel this year\u2019s Global Citizen Festival<\/a>,\u201d organizers announced Friday, a day before the fest was to be staged on the Great Lawn. \u201cForecasts predict dangerous conditions and circumstances in which we cannot safely bring tens of thousands of Global Citizens, artists, crew, vendors, partners, and staff onto the Great Lawn, let alone all of the equipment required. Safety has to come first.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe brewing Nor\u2019easter along the eastern coast of the U.S. has also forced the cancelation of Ed Sheeran\u2019s Gillette Stadium shows in Massachusetts<\/a> as well as the All Things Go festival set for this weekend in Forest Hills, Queens.<\/p>\n

\n\tGlobal Citizen organizers added, \u201cThis is the first time in 14 years we\u2019ve had to cancel. We have spent this week working through countless contingencies, which were ultimately not possible, and cancelling is a decision we have not taken lightly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis year\u2019s Global Citizen was set to feature Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Alicia Keys and Friends, Tomorrow X Together, and more, with Hugh Jackman serving as host.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFood that was due to be available at the Festival will be donated to local organizations serving the people of New York City,\u201d organizers said Friday. \u201cWe are enormously proud of what we have achieved together this year \u2013 one of the most impactful years for our movement around the world \u2013 and we are deeply grateful to every artist, world leader, partner, crew member, vendor, global citizen, and our team. We will be back in Central Park next year. We can\u2019t wait for you to be there with us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend\u2019s Global Citizen festival at New York\u2019s Central Park has been canceled due to potentially severe weather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[133034,120756,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-356923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-global-citizen","tag-global-citizen-festival","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356923","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=356923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}