Neil Young, Foo Fighters, Black Keys, Band of Horses and K'naan will share the stage at the Great Lawn in New York's Central Park on September 29th as part of the Global Festival, a concert designed to bring awareness and funds to the cause of ending global poverty.
"We wanted to make it different from other benefit concerts – we didn't want it to be the same as, say, Live 8," Hugh Evans, co-founder of the Global Poverty Project, tells Rolling Stone. The team organized Global Festival in conjunction with Goldenvoice/AEG, the veteran team behind the landmark Coachella music festival. "We wanted to do something unique for our generation."
The Global Festival is timed to make an impact; it takes place while international leaders are gathered at the United Nations General Assembly Meeting to discuss commitments and solutions to significantly reduce worldwide poverty by 2015.
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