Some major names in music are slated to perform at the 2014 Global Citizen festival on September 27th at the Great Lawn, including country superstar Carrie Underwood, hip-hop's the Roots, dance music's Tiësto, and also No Doubt, who will be making their first live appearance in two years.
Global Citizen 2014 focuses on three key issues: bringing vaccines to the world's poor; bringing education to the nearly 60 million youth worldwide who are denied learning; and a new initiative highlighting the importance of adequate sanitation in stemming disease and other social problems.
The 2013 Global Citizen festival featured John Mayer, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Elvis Costello and Kings of Leon.
This year's festival will add media partners NBC and MSNBC, who will promote the event on The Today Show and broadcast it to an enormous audience worldwide. Read more here.