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The 12 Best Music Festivals Across the Globe
Your essential bucket-list guide to the twelve best music festivals. Get your groove on!
The Global Citizen Festival – September, NYC
New Yorkers are excited when September is around the corner, because The Global Poverty Project puts on the Global Citizen festival, an event promoting the movement to end extreme poverty. The Global Poverty Project is an advocacy organization committed to building a strong movement to end extreme poverty by 2030. Each September, Global Citizen’s founder Hugh Evans and Coldplay’s Chris Martin bring together global leaders, music artists and global citizens for the largest concert in Central Park’s history, called the Global Citizen Festival. Performers include Beyonce, No Doubt, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Fall Out Boy, Jay Z, Coldplay, My Morning Jacket and many more. The concert is televised and hosted by major celebrities like Stephen Colbert and Hugh Jackman. Tickets are free, but must be ‘earned’, and it’s well worth it because the lineup is always incredible.
The Global Citizen Festival, in NYC’s Central Park
GPP’s founder, Hugh Evans (far front left) with some of the Global Citizen festival’s famous speakers and performers
Wendy Rock
Coachella is by far the best. TRUST ME ON THIS! all the other festivals are just warm up for Coachella!
Tinsley Mortimer
I’ve been to a few of these — they’re a lot of fun (especially if you can get backstage / VIP area passes…). Great list, Hilary!
Esther Earl Harris
Great post packed with a lot of information! Hilary, thanks for sharing this with us.
Louise Stone
Those festivals look amazing. This is really a much much useful and awesome article. You covered all the world’s best music festivals very impressively and in detail. Above all these awesome music festivals experiences, they also aim to focus on the environment and the world and most. if not all, they have programs for raising money for charities that work to improve the world. 🙂
Kimberly Vigil
So apply your sunscreen, best festival attire and get ready to hit any of these great music festivals all over the globe. 🙂
Elsie Spurlock
Fantastic post! you really hit the nail on the head here. Organizers have created awesome festivals in unique spaces with different vibes and plenty of incredible music acts from all over the world. The feeling of these festivals reflects that of the artistic, cool and laid-back vibe of itself. Get away from stress from a few days and celebrate the music you love with your favorite artists. Get lost in a truly unbeatable environment and surrounded by thousands of like-minded people.
Jenny Garett
Coachella is one of the biggest festivals. The crowds in Coachella are internationally diverse, the setting is beautiful and the experience is everything that’s enjoyable. Coachella is a perfect spot to do some superb people-watching. You never know who will be dancing right next to you. . And it continually draws people to listen to great music and get lost in it. 🙂
Heather Strobel
Wow brilliant pictures! Some of these music festivals look incredible. Hilary thanks a bunch for sharing this. I’ve always wanted to attend a music festival and this is definitely taking me out of my comfort zone. However, I enjoy meeting and interacting with other people. So, I am looking forward to attending festivals and meeting new friends.
Merry Robinson
So many amazing Music Festivals, thanks for this excellent post. I went to Global citizen fest in 2014 (it’s also my first time to attend music festivals) and since than the connection has never stopped. And By far the most incredible experience of our entire lives. it’s just getting better every year. Here s to Global citizen 2014 memories <3
Helen Dark
Anything with music, lights and adrenaline sounds so beautiful to me. I hope to visit coachella , but it would be a goal to reach all these festivals. There’s just something about music fest, to me, that is so wild and vast. This is officially on my bucket list.
Good article, thanks for sharing!