Rockers Coldplay will play their first-ever show in India in a free performance as the anti-poverty Global Citizen Festival on Friday announced an expansion. The festival, which distributes tickets in return for individual actions to fight extreme poverty, said it would release further details 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 General Assembly to push world leaders to put anti-poverty efforts high on the agenda.
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