Kanye West To Headline Citi Field Music Festival

Kanye is coming to Queens.

The Citi Field parking lot in Flushing Meadows Corona Park will host a new music festival headlined by Yeezus himself October 1-2.

The Meadows Music and Arts Festival will feature The Weeknd, Chance The Rapper, Kygo, Grimes, Pusha T, The 1975, Bryson Tiller, Savages, and more.

The organizers of the festival, Founders Entertainment, also put on the Governors Ball. West was to headline the last day of the ball held on Randalls Island earlier this month, but his performance was canceled due to rain.

That led to the rapper attempting to play a show at Webster Hall early the next morning, but instead police had to disperse a rowdy crowd of more than 4,000 outside the venue and cancel the gig.

The cancellation paved the way for West to headline the new festival, which will feature over 42 artists on four stages, organizers said.

“(We) saw a booking for West at the new The Meadows Music and Arts Festival as a way to follow through on bringing him to New York City for his only North American festival appearance in 2016,” organizers said.

Anyone who has bought a Governors Ball ticket will have access to a presale for the new Queens festival starting Wednesday at 11 a.m.

Tickets go on sale to the general public Thursday.

The festival will also “showcase a world's fair of cuisine from around the globe, and feature a tour de force in craft cocktails from some of the finest mixologists around,” according to a release.

The Meadows fest is to take place the same weekend that the popular World Maker Faire will be held in the parking lot of the nearby New York Hall of Science.

The Faire drew more than 85,000 people two years ago.

The dueling events mean that Flushing Meadows Corona Park will almost certainly be packed that weekend.

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