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Governor's
Ball 2016 live stream
hereGovernors Ball
Music Festival is a two-day music
festival held on Randall's Island in
New York City on June 23-24, .
This year will be the second year of
the annual event. It is produced by
Founders Entertainment, an
independent festival promotion
company based in New York City.
Aside from the wide variety of
music, the festival will feature
different games and activities, as
well as an assortment of New York
City's finest food-trucks.
Randall's Island
is situated in the East River in New
York City, part of the borough of
Manhattan. It is separated from
Manhattan island on the west by the
river's main channel, from Queens on
the east by the Hell Gate, and from
the Bronx on the north by the Bronx
Kill. It is joined to Wards Island
on the south by a landfill, the site
of former Little Hell Gate.
Together, the two islands form New
York County's Census Tract 240,
which had a total population of
1,386 living on 2.2 km² of land
area, according to the United States
Census, 2000.
Native Americans
called the island Minnahanonck. It
was purchased from the Indians in
1637 by Dutch Governor Wouter Van
Twiller and used for farming. John
Montresor, an engineer with the
British army, purchased the island
in 1772. He lived on it, now renamed
Montresor's Island, with his wife
until the Revolutionary War forced
him to deploy. The British used his
island to launch amphibious attacks
on Manhattan, and Montresor's house
there was burned in 1777. He
resigned his commission and returned
to England in 1778, but retained
ownership of the island until the
British evacuated the city in 1783
and it was confiscated. It was
purchased by Jonathan Randel (or
Randal) in 1784, at which time it
acquired its familiar name, if with
different spelling. His heirs sold
it to the city in 1835 for $60,000.
Line up for The
Governors Ball include:
Alberta cross
Art vs. Science
Atmosphere
Beck
Big gigantic
Built to spill
Cage the elephant
Chromeo
Cults
Devendra banhart
Duck sauce
Explosions in the sky
Fiona apple
Freelance whales
James murphy & pat mahoney (dfa/lcd
soundsytem)
K. Flay
Kid cudi
Major lazer
Modest mouse
Nobody beats the drum
Passion pit
Penguin prison
Phantogram
Santigold
The jezabels
Turf war
Walk the moon