The Big Climate Thing will debut at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium this summer with a lineup headed by Khruangbin, HAIM, The Roots, and more. The three-day event promoting ecological awareness takes place September 16th–18th.
Presented by Climate Control Projects in partnership with Brian Eno’s EarthPercent, the lineup will also feature other top acts Sheryl Crow, The Flaming Lips, Gary Clark Jr., Courtney Barnett, and Princess Nokia. Additional performers include Antibalas, Ayoni, Bonny Light Horseman, Guster, Joe Sumner & Friends, Mykki Blanco, Pom Pom Squad, Seratones, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Sunflower Bean, The Weather Station, and Valarie June, with more special guests to be announced.
“I think music, along with all the cultural industries, have spent way too long sitting back on this issue,” the Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman told Rolling Stone. “I believe music plays a primarily emotional role in people’s lives, and as such I think it has huge potential in pushing us to recognize our tangled emotions around this topic. When I imagine a stadium full of people coming together for a climate event centered on music, what I imagine is an enormous opportunity to feel a solidarity that has been so missing here. I truly hope that an enormous in-person event can have some power to bring people together and create some common experience around climate, and push those in attendance to examine their climate feelings and push through them enough to act.”
Tickets for the inaugural The Big Climate Thing go on sale on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET here. Fans can sign up now through the event website for pre-sale access beginning on Tuesday.
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