{"id":357026,"date":"2026-09-25T20:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T20:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:34:18","slug":"new-yorks-global-citizen-fest-canceled-due-to-extreme-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357026\/","title":{"rendered":"New York’s Global Citizen Fest Canceled Due To Extreme Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUPDATE, with CBGB news: The organizers of three New York City outdoor festivals \u2014 the Global Citizen Festival<\/a>, the All Things Go music festival and the CBGB Festival \u2014 have canceled this weekend\u2019s events due to forecasts of extreme weather caused by the unusual September Nor\u2019easter expected to hit the East Coast.<\/p>\n

\n\tGlobal Citizen pulled the plug on its event Friday afternoon. \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,\u201d organizers said. \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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe statement continued: \u201cSafety has to come first. This 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

\n\tEarlier on Friday, the weekend-long All Things Go NYC Festival scheduled for New York\u2019s Forest Hills Stadium was canceled due to the weather predictions. The open-air music fest was to have featured performances by Zara Larsson, Lola Young, Brandi Carlile, Ethel Cain, Muna, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rebecca Black, Cara Delevingne, Blue DeTiger, Chloe Qisha, CMAT, Jensen McRae, Meg Stalter, Natalie Jinju, the Beaches, Hemlock Springs, Grace Ives and Cherry Bomb.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe safety of our fans, the artists and local crew is our top priority,\u201d All Things Go organizers said on Instagram (see the message, including refund info, below). \u201cWe don\u2019t really know how to put into words how heartbroken we are. Thank you for understanding, and thank you to the fans, artists, and crews who make this festival what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe annual Global Citizen festival, which raises money and awareness to end extreme poverty around the world, was to have taken place this year on Saturday, September 26, on the Great Lawn in Central Park. Hosted by Hugh Jackman, the festival was to have featured appearances by Alicia Keys, Yeonjun, Ms. Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey and Tomorrow X Together, among many others.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the success of the first-ever FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show, which was produced by Global Citizen and helped raise $60 million for the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, this year\u2019s festival was designed to raise awareness and raise funds for childrens\u2019 global educational opportunities, smallholder farmers and electricity for 2.5 million homes.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Global Citizen, the organization over the last six weeks has secured $208.8 million in financial commitments to help more than 2 million children access education and stay in school, and support 7.5 million people, including smallholder farmers, women, youth, and indigenous communities. Ireland and Canada committed $151.6 million to help children get in and stay in school; and Burundi, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Guinea, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, the Minderoo Foundation, and the Green Climate Fund will support small farming businesses.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Festival is one day,\u201d the organization said, \u201cbut the actions you took and the impact you created will reach far beyond Central Park. Conflict, extreme weather, and rising costs are forcing millions of families from their homes, disrupting education, threatening food supplies and pushing communities back into extreme poverty, but we have seen what is possible when we take action together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTickets to the Global Citizen Festival were free and could be secured by visiting the Global Citizen app and earning points by completing \u201caction journeys\u201d related to the core issues. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou took action to earn your tickets,\u201d today\u2019s statement said. \u201cYou made plans, booked travel, and in many cases came to New York from across the country and around the world to be with us in Central Park, and we are sincerely grateful for your commitment to our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFestival tickets that were purchased outright will be refunded automatically. People who made a donation to secure tickets can also receive refunds, with email instructions being sent to outline options.<\/p>\n

\n\tFood that was due to be available at the Festival will be donated to local organizations serving the people of New York City.<\/p>\n

\n\t\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,\u201d Global Citizen said, adding that the festival \u201cwill be back in Central Park next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother open-air festival \u2013 the CBGB Festival featuring Patti Smith, Buzzcocks, Morrissey, Sex Pistols and many other acts associated with punk and the legendary CBGB venue \u2013 has canceled Saturday\u2019s day-long concert at Brooklyn\u2019s Under The K Bridge Park in Greenpoint after consulting local officials. (A Friday night concert featuring The Prodigy, also at Under The K Bridge Park, has also been canceled.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have made the difficult decision to cancel The Prodigy on September 25th and CBGB Festival on September 26th at Under The K Bridge Park due to forecasted severe weather and high wind conditions in the New York Metropolitan area throughout the weekend,\u201d organizers said in a statement. \u201cThe safety of our fans, the artists, and local crews is our top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRefunds are available at original point of purchase. Ticketholders who purchased through AXS will be automatically refunded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE, with CBGB news: The organizers of three New York City outdoor festivals \u2014 the Global Citizen Festival,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[120756,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-357026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","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\/357026","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=357026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}