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Coldplay to rock India as part of anti-poverty Global Citizen Festival

The video for Coldplay song Hymn for the Weekend was shot in India

By: Eastern Eye Staff

British rock band Coldplay will play their first-ever show in India in a free performance as the anti-poverty Global Citizen Festival on Friday (September 9) announced an expansion. The festival, which distributes tickets in return for individual actions to fight extreme poverty, said it would release further details on Monday. But it confirmed Coldplay’s participation, and said the November 19 show in Mumbai would be free after press reports in India said the concert would be exorbitantly expensive. The Global Citizen Festival, established in 2012, takes place each year in New York’s Central Park on the sidelines of the UN…

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