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Governors Island To Host An (Indie) Ball This Summer
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Jen Carlson
Published Feb 23, 2011
Modified Feb 23, 2011
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With the Pool Parties not happening this year (at least not as we knew them), what's a young creative from Brooklyn to do for some entertainment? Get thee to Governors Island! This summer marks the first, in what is hopefully an annual event dubbed the Governors Ball. The music festival will take place on June 18th and features Girl Talk, Pretty Lights, Empire of the Sun, Big Boi (of Outkast), Neon Indian, People Under The Stars, Mac Miller, Miami Horror, Passion Pit (DJ Set), Reptar, Outasight and more to be announced. The press release tells us it's going to be: "a massive mid-summer dance party of epic proportions." Surely, with an even more epic line for the ferry.
Tickets (which start at $75) go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m., and you can get more details here. And now, more hipster cliches than you can imagine, jam packed into one video:
Hopefully the Girl Walk//All Day project will be ready by then... they've surpassed their Kickstarter goal by nearly $10,000!
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Jen Carlson
Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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