Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas and Kevin Jonas of the Jonas Brothers carry out onstage throughout International Citizen Pageant on Sept. 24, 2022.
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The tenth version of the International Citizen Pageant in Central Park — which first served as a fall music celebration on the Nice Garden in 2012 — started with the Jonas Brothers on Saturday evening.
It was becoming that these Jersey boys would kick off this 12 months’s occasion — on probably the most good of early fall days, with not a cloud within the sky over Central Park.
The International Citizen Pageant has come to suggest not solely the top of summer time and the start of fall — however a renewal of all of the ways in which music can elevate up our spirits and souls even in probably the most attempting of instances, whether or not you had been chanting “Jonas!” or rocking a Metallica t-shirt.
And the Jonas Brothers had been the right solution to begin the festivities, which additionally simply so occurred to be hosted by Pryianka Chopra Jonas — the spouse and child mama of the youngest JoBro, Nick.
Having such a significant Indian star as Chopra Jonas host the occasion reminded all of the New Yorkers on the Nice Garden that this was greater than us — and this 12 months’s pageant had extra of a global presence than ever earlier than.
Spanish sensation Rosalia, Italian glam rockers Maneskin and African queen Angelique Kidjo all took half. This 12 months’s festivities had been all held at the side of one other International Citizen Pageant in Ghana that featured Usher, H.E.R. and SZA.
Nonetheless, give it as much as the native Jonas Brothers — the heartthrobs with all of the hair lushness— for delivering one of the crucial crowd-pleasing units of an evening that additionally included such heavy-hitters as Metallica and Mariah Carey. In the midst of a warmish early fall day — when it was nonetheless too early for Joe and Kevin to be sporting jackets — they burned up the stage with group faves resembling “Sucker” and “Solely Human.”
In addition they confirmed their concord by sharing their aspect tasks, together with Nick’s solo single “Jealous” and Joe’s DNCE hit “Cake by the Ocean.”
They set an early commonplace that was exhausting for the opposite acts to match. However a part of that was as a result of two of probably the most thrilling acts on this 12 months’s lineup — Rosalia and nation star Mickey Guyton — had been relegated to a a lot smaller aspect stage that left them devoid of any vitality whereas a lot of the crowd merely seemed on the display screen on the principle stage. It could have seemed good on tv, however each Guyton and Rosalia deserved higher.
And the way did Charlie Puth get such a significant placement on this 12 months’s lineup? He definitely didn’t deserve extra love than Guyton or Rosalia. His model of “New York State of Thoughts” had you questioning simply why Billy Joel wasn’t up there to do the rattling factor himself!
Then there was Carey, who gave a pop-diva fabulosity to the entire affair — which has introduced not solely folks collectively from throughout the globe however musical followers of all genres.
After an awesome introduction by ballerina Misty Copeland, Mariah left the gang wanting extra in one in all her uncommon post-COVID performances. Whereas she sounded good whisking by way of “Obsessed,” “Honey,” “At all times Be My Child,” “We Belong Collectively” and “Hero,” it wasn’t the main Mariah comeback second that many — yours actually included — had been hoping for.
It was nice to see hope for the longer term in Maneskin, who took their main-stage spot and roared with it on rockers resembling their cowl of the 4 Seasons’ “Beggin’ ” and “I Wanna Be Your Slave.” They confirmed that music — and its energy — actually is world in any case.
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