Governors Ball rocks Queens for summer music festival

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Post Malone headlining at Governors Ball 2024.

Photo by Amanda Moses

Governors Ball rocked Flushing Meadows Corona Park over the weekend for an epic three-day music festival kicking off an ultimate summer experience.ย 

Coachella better watch its back because Governors Ball showed what the East Coast is made of as it returned for the second year in a row to the crown jewel of Queens Park with an out-of-this-world music festival.ย 

The pulsing vibration coming off of three stages states served as the beating drum to which thousands marched to as they trekked through the grassland.ย  Governors Ball lit the skies with fireworks, pyrotechnics, and smoke machines, as revelers donning pink cowboy hats, boots, denim skirts and glitter makeup saw their favorite singers and discover new ones.ย 

Over 60 artists were invited to perform, including mega stars Post Malone, The Killers, SZA, Carly Rae Jepsen, Sabrina Carpenter, Peso Pluma, 21 Savage, Rauw Alejandro, Sexyy Red, Chappell Roan, P1Harmony, and Reneรฉ Rap.ย 

Governors Ball embodied the Woodstock esthetic and the electronic chill vibe of Coachella but with New York City panache.ย  Between a Statue of Liberty Statue, graffiti lounge and other photo booth locations, there was a lot to do in between music sets.ย 

It was Taynasia Sistrunkโ€™s first time at Governors Ball. She shared that it was important to make this journey from Hillside, New Jersey to Queens after spending years of watching festival videos from the sidelines.ย  For the 2024 showcase, she decided to don her a Y2K styled outfit and geared up for an epic Friday night on June 7.ย 

โ€œWhat brought me here is really all of the fun videos Iโ€™ve seen over the years and Iโ€™m excited to see Teezo Touchdown, Dominic Fike, and all of those,โ€ Sistrunk said excitedly.ย 

The killer lineup is what also drove Taylor Dilisi, 21, and her friend Anja Kranenburg, 21, to also travel from New Jersey to Governors Ball for the three-days of mosh…

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